Remember the Poor

March inaugurates Second Saturday at Columbia Ridge—an event designed to help us integrate a rhythm of service into our lives. A simple way to consistently be in service to those less fortunate than ourselves. A constant pouring on behalf of others.

In Galations 2:20, Paul says to the church at Galatia that as he went out on his own, the disciples “desired only that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do.”

The word eager carries the ideas of hastening, exerting and giving diligence. The idea is that Paul was zealous in remembering the poor. He took this task with forceful motivation. He says the disciples “desired only” that he remember the poor. It was their priority, and as he explains, it was his.

So the question is, is it ours? Is it something that we are eager to do?

James 2:15-16 says, “If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,’ but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?”

And 1 John 3:17 says “But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?”

Let’s be eager to make service to those in need part of who we are. Let’s make this Saturday morning a priority.