Pray for the peace of Jerusalem

May they prosper who love you

- Psalm 122:6

5月20日:雅各的烦恼——上帝与以色列特殊的关系

5月20日:雅各的烦恼——上帝与以色列特殊的关系

忽视贫穷

在以色列许多城市的街道上充满了矛盾。巨大的财富充斥在街上,但贫穷却倾倒在路边。从以赛亚时代到如今,富人就常常忽视有需要的人。所得的税收用于美化环境,却仍然有许多人忍饥挨饿。

以赛亚书3:13-23

耶和华起来辩论,站着审判众民。耶和华必审问他民中的长老,和首领,说,吃尽葡萄园果子的,就是你们。向贫穷人所夺的,都在你们家中。主万军之耶和华说,你们为何压制我的百姓,搓磨贫穷人的脸呢?耶和华又说,因为锡安的女子狂傲,行走挺项,卖弄眼目,俏步徐行,脚下玎铛。所以主必使锡安的女子头长秃疮,耶和华又使她们赤露下体。到那日,主必除掉她们华美的脚钏,发网,月牙圈。耳环,手镯,蒙脸的帕子。华冠,足链,华带,香盒,符囊。戒指,鼻环。吉服,外套,云肩,荷包。手镜,细麻衣,裹头巾,蒙身的帕子。

祈求以色列的领导能够有上帝般的怜恤对待穷人和有需要的人。

Sarah Hanna Rigler reunited with her rescuers
British POWS
Sarah was part of a January 1945 death march of 1200 women from a concentration camp to the Baltic coast with her mother and sister. Only 300 remained alive when they reached Gross Golmkau. Sarah, urged by her mother escaped to a nearby barn. She was found by a British POW working at the farm and smuggled into his prison camp Stalag 20B. The prisoners hid her and took turns nursing her back to health. When they were to be transferred to Germany they found shelter for her with a local woman. She was the only survivor in her family