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Pollution Awareness/Mandates for Orphans and Widows

Pollution Awareness/Mandate for Orphans and WidowsReligion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and the keep oneself from being polluted by the world. (James 1: 27 NIV)

Orphans and Widows

I am thankful to attend a local church who has a goal to reach out to the fatherless. They have adopted a local school and its surrounding area. This church also has many families that have adopted children. My home church, Brother Charles with his wife, take widowed ladies out for a special Christmas dinner with fellowship and lots of laughter- so I hear. This special outing has been a tradition for years. In your local church, are you seeing any three of these mandates taken serious? If not, I encourage you to pray for God’s guidance. Please pray how you and your church can begin to minister to orphans and widows. These are just a few examples, God will open your mind to additional ideas. He is faithful.

Pollution

The third mandate is to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. Pollution is defined as introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects. The world is referred to the area that is controlled by satan. Satan was once God’s arch angel, Lucifer. However, when pride overtook his heart, Lucifer  and 1/3 of God’s angels were dismissed from heaven to rule the world. They were introduced to this environment. They are harmful and poisonous. Satan is here to kill, steal and destroy-John 10:10.

Wisdom

More than ever, we need wisdom to know how to function in today’s world. If anyone lacks wisdom, James tells us he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault. Now this is huge! With all the fault finders in this world, Jesus promises to give you wisdom without finding any fault. You gain wisdom and get a pass on fault finders. There is no condemnation in Christ. We need wisdom. With the help of the Holy Spirt, the spirit of truth and wisdom, we will be alerted to pollution. Then we choose to turn away and heed warning or become entangled in pollution. Please turn away and pull someone else with you. It’s Forward Friday! May hearts soften to understand, eyes open to see, ears willing to hear Biblical truth that will set people free.

Be encouraged!

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