JESUS MINDS THE WIDOWS

                  JESUS MINDS FOR WIDOWS  

PS146:9The Lord watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless’ but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

Dear friends like Jesus we have to mind the sojourners and uphold the widows and the fatherless child. He cares them and upholds them. In OT and NT portraits that God is always on the side of poor and needy and he hears their cries and answers them immediately. When Hagar sent away from Abraham, the water and bread were spent the child was crying for water and she cried unto God, lifted her voice and wept. God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of the Lord called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What troubles you Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. Up!  Lift up the boy, and hold fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation. Then he opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she filled the skin with water gave the boy the drink and God was with the boy, and he grew up.

God heard the cry of Abraham’s servant Hagar the Egypt and her child boy Ishmael. As they were destitute and wandering in the wilderness without food and water, God heard their cry and looked unto them. Today God is on the side of poor and needy. Fear not, God is with you to lift you up and open the door to live in the world like Ishmael.

Now the wife of one of the ‘sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord. But the creditor has come to take my two children to be slaves. And Elisha said to her, “what shall I do for you? Tell me, what have you in the house?” She said, your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil. Then he said, Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels and not too few. Then go in and shut the door behind yourself and your sons and pour in to all the vessels and when one is full, set it aside. So she went from him and shut the door behind herself and her sons, and as she poured they brought the vessels to her. When the vessels were full, she said to her son, “bring me another vessel and her he said to her, There is not another, then the oil stopped flowing. She came and told the man of God and he said to her, ‘Go, sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest.”God cares for the widows who listen to the word of God and very careful to do it and he performs miracle to pay debts and satisfy their lives.

 Jesus told the parable of the persistent widow. In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respect man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, give me justice against my adversary. For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming. And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says, and God will not give justice to his elect, who cry to him day night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily, nevertheless, when the son of man comes, will he find faith on earth?”Like the widow cry to God day and night, brings justice and answer to us speedily without delay.

Next Jesus minds the widow’s offering. Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their offering into the offering box, and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on. Jesus looks us and our offerings differently and he looks the poor people and poor widows and he justifies their deeds accordingly. And he is more concern and mindful of them and regards them. He condemned the scribes and Pharisees who devour the widow’s house or propriety and they will receive the greater reward of condemnation.

   

Dear children of God Let the mind of Christ are in us to help poor people, destitute, and poor widows and hear their cry to help them. My father died when I was one and half years old and my mother became widow with four small children. After my father’s death she went to study teacher training and she got permanent job only on her 50^th year, in between she struggled hard to grow the children. But God heard her cries and tears and Jesus never failed to wipe away her tears. Jesus was on my mother’s side to help her to grow the children. If you are blessed by this message, kindly introduce to your friends and relatives and let me know your comments, please send to my email ID. revsjc@gmail.com. revsjc12@gmail.com, revsjc12@hotmail.com, johnchelliah484@yahoo.com,