"When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands." (Deuteronomy 24:19, NIV))
"....go back to get it", is selfishness, which is, as Charles Finney said, the number one hindrance to revival.
I have been proclaiming for decades what our text reveals, that there is as much love and promise of provision in the Old Testament as in the New. Likewise, there is as much rebuke and judgment in the New Testament as in the Old. Don't listen to anyone who gives you the impression that it was all judgment and retribution in the Old Testament, then nothing but affirmation and forgiveness in the New. This teaching is telling people, in effect, that the Blessed Trinity somehow got "converted" in the Intertestamental Period. As James tells us, "He does not change like shifting shadows."!! Holy Spirit, write this in our hearts.
Our text speaks of a kindness, provision, care which has no partiality, no boundaries. When, "The Word of God," appeared among men, no one had ever witnessed kindness and love as they saw in, "the carpenter's Son." Peter tells us that Jesus, "went about doing good." But our Lord Jesus was not starting some new religion. Jesus was/is revealing just Who the Godhead Is.
Our text should affect daily life for you and me. Father, Son Jesus, and Holy Ghost, "predestined us to be conformed to the image of His Son"; therefore, what Jesus is doing among men and nations is what the Church is doing. The command of our text is a command for the Church.
"Thought for the Day"-- When we, "....overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it."
Father, in Jesus' Name, What can I say? Glorious are You. Amen.
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
Hebrews 12:2
