James 1: 27 says "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."
The widows and orphans were those that no one looked up to. This ties in with the rest of the Gospel that Jesus lived on earth. He spent His time with thieves, liars, tax collectors, children, outcasts of society, the least of those that we see as important in society. Would we really take Jesus seriously in today's world.
We become polluted by the world by believing that the things we have are ok to have and that those richer than us or more powerful than us are the ones that should give the most. Remember that Jesus had nothing financially, yet gave. He was a common laborer, yet spent time teaching the rich and famous, and also touching those that were disgusting in the worlds eyes.
Does the world take us seriously, as we claim to walk as Jesus did? Where do we spend our time and to whom do swipe our cards for?
Re-read that verse and let's open our eyes for what God has for us be.
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