God's kindness and duties

One of the Bible verses I adore most about the Father God is in Exodus 34:6-7: “The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, ‘The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin…’ (ESV).” We are living in an era where we have many movements emphasizing spreading kindness. Anyone can be one who spreads kindness when they read about what the Lord says in the Bible.

I was thoroughly captivated when reading the verses in Leviticus chapter 19, verses 9-10: “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.’ What a merciful God we serve. He wants his children to leave food for the poor after they have gathered for themselves.

The following verse goes like this: ‘Do not make your hired workers wait until the next day to receive their pay.’ The Lord is concerned about the worker receiving their pay in time. In today's world, the struggle is real even for people who love the Lord to fulfill these duties to their workers. It's obvious that the Lord wants us to have the pay for our work. Then where are we going wrong? Wait for the Lord, ask Him for help to fulfill your duties to your workers. The crow is just the tool used by God to feed Elijah; the crow is not God. Waiting for the crow to feed you is foolishness. I recently read a beautiful post on a platform related to work. It said, all of us are not in the same boat. Some of us are in ships. Some of us have canoes, while some are swimming. The storm cannot affect all the same. Not everyone can go through the storm like some of us do. The swimmer can't survive as the others. May the Lord equip us and help us to do our duties to the ones who work for us. In no way are we even ethical when we get more work and pay less. That is not the Lord's way. Our master is the Lord God. May He help us show kindness to people who are in the storm with us, yet not in the same boat!

Dear God, we pray for our Christian brothers and sisters who are in storms. With Jesus in our boat, we know we are safe. We trust you alone to provide for every need we have this month. May the Christian leaders around us be supplied and fulfilled to pay for their workers. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.