the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Deuteronomy 24:7-22
God is light; God is love (1 John 1:5; 1 John 4:8). He reveals Himself in this double fashion in the seemingly least commandments. Light: He condemns the thief, watches over the appearance of the leper (type of sin), demands justice from the creditor and the employer and knows how much each person has sinned. Love: His eyes are on all the oppressed: debtors, the poor, strangers, widows, orphans, servants, and their cries rise up to His ears. James says so when writing of those rich people who withheld wages from the workers who had reaped their fields (James 5:4).
The world admires powerful and rich people. In contrast it shows little interest in the weak and the small. Let us take care, children of God, not to allow ourselves to be won over by that attitude. Our Master went through this world as a servant, a stranger, a poor person. Jesus of Nazareth was not highly regarded. He was "despised and rejected of men . . . we esteemed him not" (Isaiah 53:3). You have despised "the poor", James observes (James 2:6), whilst Psalms 41 begins thus: "Blessed is he that considereth the poor!"
