Daily Devotions

God shows no partiality (Deuteronomy 10:17-18)

“For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.”

The Bible talks a lot about caring for vulnerable groups: orphans, widows, and foreigners. Families were the stabilising unit in the ancient near east. As long as you had a family to care for you, you’d never know want. This is why widows, orphans, and foreigners were so defenceless and exposed-and why God contends for them regularly.

One day, Horton the elephant hears a cry from help coming from a speck of dust. Even though he can’t see anyone on the speck, he decides to help it. As it turns out, the speck of dust is home to the Whos, who live in their city of Whoville. Horton agrees to help protect the Whos and their home, but this gives him nothing but torment from his neighbours, who refuse to believe that anything could survive on the speck. Still, Horton stands by the motto that, "After all, a person is a person, no matter how small.”

There is the kernel of gospel. A person’s a person, no matter how small. Here we find crucial element is God’s scheme of things. It is a basic idea in God’s kingdom. A person’s a person, no matter how small.

Lord, many is the person who has come asking for justice

    and you have generously provided justice in their lives.

We too come asking for your justice

For ourselves when we have we been treated unjustly.

For those who have been treated with injustices.

For those whose countries show no justice.

Lord we need you to roll down your justice for all. Amen