{"id":65341,"date":"2023-09-25T11:01:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T16:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=65341"},"modified":"2023-09-25T11:22:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T16:22:41","slug":"our-obligation-to-care-for-widows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=65341","title":{"rendered":"Our Obligation to Care for Widows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today\u2019s post is sponsored by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/seminary.bju.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/seminary.bju.edu&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1695324046075000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3V1nQ8Xr8_RuBc5oGckRNN\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">BJU Seminary<\/a>\u00a0and written by Stuart Scott, professor of biblical counseling and ACBC Fellow. BJU Seminary equips Christian leaders through an educational and ministry experience that is biblically shaped, theologically rich, historically significant, and evangelistically robust.<\/p>\n<p>God cares how we treat people because He Himself is gracious and kind to all. But in our individualistic society, the doctrine of \u201cloving your neighbor as yourself\u201d is not commonly put into practice. We often neglect others, especially a particular group of people in great need: widows.<\/p>\n<p>God expresses concern for widows, divorced parents, and single parents and instructs His people to care for them throughout the Bible. For example, in the Old Testament: \u201cyou shall not mistreat any widow\u201d (Exod. 22:22); \u201ccursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the \u2026 widow\u201d (Deut. 27:19); \u201cplead the widow\u2019s cause\u201d (Isa. 1:17). In fact, widows were so frequently subject to abuse in the Old Testament that the Book of Job uses their exploitation to exemplify human iniquity.<\/p>\n<p>In the New Testament, Jesus Himself dealt with the topic of widows throughout the Gospels, and He even saw that His mother, probably a widow, was taken care of as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s post is sponsored by\u00a0BJU Seminary\u00a0and written by Stuart Scott, professor of biblical counseling and ACBC Fellow. BJU Seminary equips Christian leaders through an educational and ministry experience that is biblically shaped, theologically rich, historically significant, and evangelistically robust. God cares how we treat people because He Himself is gracious and kind to all. But in our individualistic society, the doctrine of \u201cloving your neighbor as yourself\u201d is not commonly put into practice. We often neglect others, especially a particular \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":65344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[950],"class_list":["post-65341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-sponsored","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/24366_Challies_Sponsorship_Blog_FINAL-2-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65346,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65341\/revisions\/65346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}