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Looking Like the Lowly

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Greetings sisters! I pray your day is not idle. I bring that up because as we were working online we witness a lot of idleness in people.  Oftentimes a group will gather, usually the elderly, and they sit and stare around, saying something every once in a while.  Normally the conversation has very little value and sometimes it's outright vulgar.  It's a waste of the precious time God has given them and when the opportunity arises we hand out a gospel card to those interested. The other day, in a post I wrote, I talked about how we sleep in the same parking lots as the homeless so brother Jim and I were talking about the similarities that we have with the homeless.  No, we don't try to look or act like them nor do we condone anyone to be a homeless beggar. (Brother Jim is always telling them what God's Word says; ' if you don't work you don't eat' .)  We are self funded and because we need so very little to live, we can easily support ourselves.  We w...

Jesus Came For the Lowly

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Greetings sisters! We are thankful to have made it to our next destination and have already had chances to witness.  In one instance there was a beggar on the corner and so we stopped and went around the block to go back and talk to them.  We never give money but we do give food and the gospel along with a phone number to help them get off the streets if they are interested.  (In the many years we have been doing this, we've only gotten one call and that was them asking for money.)  Let the Word go out and seeds be planted! It made me think of how Jesus didn't come for the righteous, he came for the sick, the sinners, the lowly... But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?  And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.  I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. (Luke 5:30-32) I've tal...