You Are Your Brother’s Keeper
RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR NATURAL & SUPERNATURAL HOUSEHOLD
1 Timothy 5:3-16 concerns the proper care of widows in the church. Out of everything we've encountered in this letter, this passage might seem like the most irrelevant or unfamiliar instruction to the church today. But, it's a word that strikes at the very heart of who God is and at the very center of who we're called to be. Because, a healthy church that stands strong and lasts long will be a church marked by compassion for most vulnerable among us. As believers, we ought to feel a godly responsibility to give ourselves to those in need just as Christ has given himself to us. To the parents, children, grandparents, and relatives in our natural families. To the brothers and sisters we’ve been set side by side with in the family of Christ. To the neighbors we’re praying would soon join us in the household of God.