“It is hard to be honest when you don’t have money to care for your family,” he says. Michael, * who lives in Nigeria, is a farmer with six children to support. Consider some examples from one part of our troubled world. Stated a UN press release in 1996: “Fully half of all Africans are impoverished.” Despite increasingly harsh economic circumstances, an ever-growing number of Africans are applying Bible principles in life and are faithfully serving God, confident that he will sustain them. According to the United Nations, the greatest concentration of poverty is found in Africa. Today, poverty exists in every part of the world. Yet, we know that Jehovah sustained him and that he survived that terrible time of famine. The Scriptures do not tell us what or how often Jeremiah ate after Jerusalem ran out of bread. So Jeremiah, like Elijah, had little to eat. ( Lamentations 2:20) Even though Jeremiah was in custody because of his fearless preaching, Jehovah saw to it that “a round loaf of bread” was given to him daily “until all the bread was exhausted from the city.”- Jeremiah 37:21. Jeremiah survived the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem, when people had to “eat bread by weight and in anxious care.” ( Ezekiel 4:16) Eventually, the famine in the city became so severe that some women ate the flesh of their own children. Jehovah likewise sustained the faithful prophet Jeremiah during hard economic times. ( 1 Kings 17:8-16) The food was very basic, but it kept the prophet, the woman, and her son alive. ( 1 Kings 17:2-6) Later, Jehovah miraculously sustained the supply of flour and oil from which a widow provided for Elijah. First, God had ravens bring the prophet bread and meat. During a three-and-a-half-year drought, Jehovah regularly provided food for him.
One of these faithful ones was the prophet Elijah. They wandered about in deserts and mountains and caves and dens of the earth.”- Hebrews 11:37, 38 12:1.
( 2 Corinthians 6:3, 4) He also described a ‘great cloud’ of faithful pre-Christian witnesses, some of whom “went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, while they were in want. The apostle Paul himself experienced times of need. In turn, Jehovah loves those who trust in him and provides for them. that I may not come to poverty and I actually steal and assail the name of my God.”- PROVERBS 30:8, 9.ĭOES this mean that it is impossible for a poor person to serve God faithfully? Hardly! Throughout history countless servants of Jehovah God have maintained integrity to him despite the hardship that poverty brings. This is evident from his words: “Let me devour the food prescribed for me. Why such a request? Because he feared that poverty might prompt attitudes and actions that would threaten his relationship with God. Centuries ago a wise man prayed that he might not become poor.
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