As Christians, God calls us not only to pious living but also brokenness for the poor. This is an attempt to raise awareness in our schools, churches, families, communities, nations, and in our selves about the reality of poverty in the world. We need to reexamine the way we look at our lives, spending, habits, social structures and more. We must look carefully at how we view Christianity. Love must be our agent of change and passion our motivation.
Thus, let all Christians, everywhere, ban together and take a vow of silence in order to let our voices be heard. As we spend a day together in silent reflection, prayer and thought we will fight for the cause of the poor, sick and needy. Inevitably become more concerned ourselves with the poverty our neighbor experiences. On this day devoted to social injustice, let us plead the case of the oppressed to the only One who can make a change this cosmic in size.
“Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.” Psalm 82:3
“Learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.” Isaiah 1:17
“Religion that is pure and holy before God, the Father, is this: to care for the orphan and widowed in their distress, and to keep one’s self unstained from the world.” James 1:27
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