Our Saviour said that the poor we will have with us always (Matthew 26 v 11), Many years ago I remember been told,that I was poor,and I suppose I was.When I was a child my mother left my father ,which meant she had to being four children up by herself,by todays standards we were poor. There are many places and organisations where the poor would be excluded,even in the early church there were those who had a wrong attitude to the poor. In the church to whom James wrote his epistles .there were those who were discriminating against the poor.James highlighted how wrong that was.and gives an example of the preferential treatment given to the rich. There was the rich man in all his finery,and there was the poor man dressed in filthy old clothes. The rich man is given the best seat in the building,while the poor man is told to stand or to sit on the floor. (James 2 v 1-4) James classes what they were doing as evil.James reminds us of a very wonderful thing,that God chooses the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs to God's kingdom.In God's eyes,being rich,being powerful,being black or poor, means nothing , they are all but sinners saved by grace.
Keep the royal love.
James 2 v 8
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