True or Fake IV (Lake)

The Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe, who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing.

 - From Deuteronomy 10

Here is one thing that is true:

God does command us to welcome, be hospitable towards, to house, feed, and clothe, "strangers" among us, i.e. "aliens." 

They weren't called "illegal aliens" at the time Moses wrote this. They were just strangers, or aliens. They may have looked different. They talked different. They had different ways. 

There is no truer unconditional love than this: to love those that are different. 

And mockers of Christianity are correct to challenge us on this point. And our response should be "You are correct, and I stand convicted."

The question, "true or fake" requires us to be honest and admit what is true. 

But the listing includes orphans and widows. And if we are going to be challenged on the point of aliens, then it is fair to challenge back.

First: Indeed - let's care for aliens. Let's do it together, and let's start now. 

And I believe we are within our rights to urge them to take the discussion out of the realm of government, and into hands-on, practical action on our part. Let's do this. Together.

But it's these other two: orphans and widows. 

We all stand corrected - - - we don't even care for the kids in our own extended families, that live with only one parent. For, I believe the true definition of "orphan" includes this. 

And if we were asked to name the widows in our extended families . . . could we do it?

This charge goes back to they that mock Christianity by quoting Scripture to us: do they care for their own widows (to say nothing of widows within our neighborhoods and towns)? I have witnessed far too many of them treating widows as though they don't count. Indeed, many of them even proclaim they can't wait for the aged generation to die off. 

So tell me about illegal aliens, and I'll talk about how you treat your own grandmother. 

Unconditional love. 

Let us practice it. And let us challenge each other. And let us accept the challenge. 

For that much is true.