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I would like to highlight, however, that God has forever been concerned for the
hungry. In Leviticus 19 we have God instructing farmers not to reap from the edge of
their fields, or to harvest twice from a land, nor to gather fallen fruit off the floor,
but to leave these for the poor. But in the main, God requires of us, certainly under
the conditions which we live, to work in order to live.
For those of us who work and are remunerated well, we need to accept the
responsibility to care for others, within the body particularly, and I hope that the
understanding of this truth will become clear tomorrow.
Prayer Thought: Won’t you today give thanks to God for your work and your job
opportunities. Commit yourself today to be the best employee that you can be. Stop
complaining about things and begrudging that things are not the way you would like
them to be and create within yourself a sense of gratitude that you have food on your
table…THIS PLEASES GOD!!

Wednesday
Acts 2 v 42 – 47
In the midst of this huge hunger problem…ENTER THE CHURCH.
Can I be so bold as to affirm this particular statement which I have made a number
of times over the course of the last few years that simply says, “Any version of your
Christian faith that does not connect you with the hurting, is an incorrect version of
what your faith should be.”
InActs 2 we have a great model as seen in the 1st century church. Verse 44 –
45encapsulates so beautifully the practical theology of the church’s role as it faces
the dilemma of poverty and hunger, this is what it says“All the believers were
together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they
gave to everyone as he had need.” Can you imagine being a part of a church that
lives like that?!A church where people shared to an extreme the blessing that they
had, so that they could say that within the body, everyone had what they needed.
It was out of this context that heroes like Barnabas were born; people who
recognised the needs within their church body and used the resources that they had
to address those needs. I guess this is why the names given to the church are so
important. The church is referred to as a BODY, where if one part suffers, the whole
body suffers. We see the church referred to as being a FAMILY, where if one