They Will Know Us

Psalms 40 begins with the following:

"I waited patiently for the Lord; He turned to me and heard my cry.
He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire;
He set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.
He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God...."

And the psalms ends with..

"Yet I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
Oh, my God, do not delay."

I wonder how the poor and needy read the Scriptures, how they experience it and receive it. This psalms reminds me that the Scriptures are not mere abstractions to those who are poor. They are cries out for help, and when God meets their needs, oftentimes through the Church, their cries become "a new song" in their mouths.

Gandhi, when asked by people if he was a Christian, he would often reply "Ask the poor. They will tell you who the Christians are."

This is so true. Ask the poor all over the world, even the poor here in America. You ask the victims of Katrina in the Gulf coast today, they'll tell you who the Christians are. In face of government failures to respond to their need, it was the church who responded quickly and is still there in Lousiana. I heard of churches down there feeding literally thousands of people everyday. Imagine what has and can be done when we do small things with great love - in His name.....

...They will know us by our love....this is the greatest apologetic...

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