| |
|
March 2 - Morning
“Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns. Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.”
- Deuteronomy 24:14-15 |
 |
|
| Social Justice of the Laborer |
|
|
A righteous God required his people to be righteous themselves. Part of the Lord’s law for Israel was just treatment of an employee who was poor and needy. The Israelites were not to take advantage of someone because they were in a desperate situation. If the hired worker had finished the day’s work, he is to be paid at that days end. It is stated that this is because the poor were living day to day and would have needed their pay.
If employers withheld wages or underpaid their workers the Lord would hear their cry and find the employers guilty. James, the Lord’s brother, addresses this same issue when he writes from Jerusalem to Christian believers around 50 AD:
“Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.”
– James 5:4
While writing to the church in the New Testament it appears that James is drawing heavily from this verse from Deuteronomy to make his case for godly treatment of other people by believers. |
|
 |
“There are too many onlookers for one person to create a false quote, let alone a false book.” |
 |
“There is no such thing as blind faith, at least not in the good or useful sense of the
phrase. God has always provided enough evidence for you to put your faith in something: his actions, his existence, his word, Jesus’ miracles, etc.”
– Galyn Wiemers |
|
| |
 |
|
 |
‘Olam (Hb) – Eternity (Eng) – ‘olam is the Hebrew word that refers to the “remotest time.”
It is translated by the words “eternity” and “everlasting.” God is described as being from ‘olam to ‘olam in First Chronicles 16:36. |
|
No other document from antiquity even begins to approach the number of available manuscripts for the New Testament. For example:
Homer’s “Illiad”:
a. There are 643 remaining manuscripts of Homer’s “lliad”.
b. The “Illiad” has the second most existing manuscripts. The New Testament is first.
New Testament:
In comparison, there are a total of 48,600 manuscripts of the New Testament.
a. 5,686 are Greek manuscripts
b. 10,000 are Latin Vulgate manuscripts
c. 9,300 are other earlier versions
d. 24,000 are manuscript portions of the New Testament |
| |
|
|
 |
|
 |
Do I treat people, employees, servers, waitresses, clerks, and others with fairness?
Do I show justice in how I pay or tip people who provide a service or labor?
I will demonstrate social justice and pay a fair price to individuals who serve and labor.
|
|
"For the Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding."
- March 2:6 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
Food and
healthy diet |
Unity |
President
|
Bangladesh
(click "World" or "Nation" for updates) |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
| |
| |
| Reps & Sets is a daily Bible devotional for Christians from Generation Word Bible Teaching used each morning and evening. |
| |
|
