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Posted 3rd Oct 2007

Ministering to the Poor

David Weber
26th Sept 2007

I know that some people want to think that I've been given a burden for the needy and the lost and the poor because I'm chosen to a particular ministry to those people. But I've got to tell you, beloved, I do not have a burden for the poor and the needy because that is a particular avenue of ministry that I'm especially called to, I have a burden for those people just because I'm a Christian. If ALL Christians were and are not called to minister to the needy and the poor in some capacity, then Jesus could not be justified in His blanket indictment of all those who fail to do so.

With this in mind, we should all take inventory of the things that we have been given by God (both materially and spiritually), and then we should also look to see just how much of that is being used for God's glory in ministry to the poor and the lost and the needy of this world. I tell you, friends, it is surely no coincidence that the parable of the talents in Matthew 25 be directly joined to Jesus' indictment in that very same chapter which says, "Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me."

D