Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Proverbs 14:20-22, 31-34
by: Grace Crouch.
Sometimes instructions given in the Bible seem like obvious, good qualities that anyone would know. It amazes me how often God’s people are reminded to be kind to the poor. In the passage you just read, we are told that if we despise the poor, we are sinners.
I am as guilty as the next person in assuming that someone’s inebriated and slovenly appearance is the product of his own choices. It is really not for us to judge, though, but to serve. God promises happiness to those who are kind to the poor.