Arthur Dent, an English Puritan, reflects on salvation and recalls Job’s grim scenes of cruelty. Under feudal lords, the poor—farmers, laborers, widows—trembled and hid at their approach. One wonders: where do the poor still hide today? And can we be the sort whose voice, like in Job 29, brings them relief rather than dread?
Rudolf Gwalther, Swiss reformer, on Paul telling Corinthian Christians to help not only their own poor but also those in Jerusalem.
Today I read a news story where someone invoked “help our own poor first” as a reason to be upset about immigrants (workers who had reported to staff an Amazon maquiladora). What would Gwalther do? WWGD?
How can you provide for poor not only locally, but far away as well?
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Greg Johnson