The Poor

I’m still reading this book called Servolution by Dino Rizzo and I came across this quote today that just rocked me.

“Our understanding of the ‘the poor’ has to include any person in any kind of bondage or under any kind of oppression who needs the freedom of Christ shown to them.”

He says that is exactly what Jesus was talking about in Luke 4:18-19: “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.  He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” I live in a very affluent area of the country and I have never thought of poor people like that.  For me that means that the very person who I followed this morning in their Mercedes may actually be poor.  I know that I don’t see them that way, but that is because I don’t see them like Jesus does.  We all must change the way we answer the definition of what is poor.

God today help me to see people like you see people.  Give me the heart and compassion that you have to meet their needs and to share your love with them.  God help me to have the attitude of thankfulness and not of jealousy.  God use me.