Devotions

To Jesus, every human being is valuable—so valuable that he was willing to give up his life in order to rescue us and return us safely home to God. It doesn’t matter if we are rich or poor, immigrants or native born, used to being loved—or just the opposite.

What do you need? That is a question no poor or disabled person has ever had trouble answering. For us, our needs are obvious; the trouble is picking which need is the most urgent!

This is a stormy time in America. Aspects of our government and our culture are changing at breakneck speed. If the changes are hard for us to keep up with, imagine what they are like for people who are new to this country? How can Jesus show us the way to helping our New American neighbors?

New Americans know how things work in the countries they used to live in—but what about here? Can they trust what their English-speaking children tell them? What about the TV, or social media? Who is telling the truth, and who is just trying to take advantage of them?

Jesus is not concerned about tax questions as much as he is about us, the human beings who carry God’s image. This is true for every human being—newborns and elderly, men and women, people born here and the new Americans who are just getting adjusted to their new country.