1 Timothy 5:5  She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day…

In only a century since the millennia of the Bible, relationships of the family have been overturned. All older than sixteen require automobiles and all older than sixty-six need to be put away in a senior center. The sixteen-year old and the sixty-six year old work side-by-side; one to get ahead and the other to get by.

As no honor is given to marriage, as no honor is given to the husband and as no honor is given to the grandparents; no consideration is given to the relationships relished by our aging widows and widowers of our churches.

1 Timothy 5:1 Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,2 older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity. 3 Honor widows who are truly widows.

Christ Jesus would gently remind the church of those among us who live in poverty of relationship with the family, including the family of God, the church.

Exodus 22:22 “You must not exploit a widow or an orphan.

Why not?

What is God’s will? Has social security not taken care of our widows and widowers? Do they not have pensions of their own saved to keep them in their old age?

Have we not taken care of the orphans and children of the divorced and divorced ‘single moms’ through welfare of our government?

Is this the attitude of the world?

OR should this be the attitude of ‘Christ followers’, the church?

Again, the several Biblical examples of widows and orphans are not directed only to the fatherless, but to those in need.

To be continued…