Contemplative Bible Reading

Deuteronomy 24:19 (New Living Translation)

When you are harvesting your crops and forget to bring in a bundle of grain from your field, don’t go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigners, orphans, and widows. Then the Lord your God will bless you in all you do.

These sentences are the start of a section that discussed several types of crops. The message is clear to the land owner, the farmer, the person who owns.

Leave something for those who are passing through. Leave something for those who have no means of sustenance. You will have plenty. Trust that God will give you plenty.

I’m not a farmer. I don’t forget part of my paycheck on the sidewalk somewhere to go back and retrieve it or let someone else have it. I have to do something to allow someone else to have part of what God has given to me.

Did I forget to do that this week? Oh, must have slipped my mind. I need to remember better, huh? Please God, help me in my unbelief.