God is traveling incognito observing us all
He may look weak or appear six feet tall.
We in our self-will and insolent pride
Don’t see God traveling with the poor at His side.
We’re haughty, disdainful and judging each man.
Not realizing one missed paycheck and there we could stand.
We have our excuses and we pull them all out
To explain why the poor don’t deserve a hand out.
Go get a job, your choices were bad,
And when you say it you don’t even feel sad.
If you planned for the future you wouldn’t be poor.
Not knowing poverty could be at your door.
What I read in the Good Book does not ask me to say
Why in the world are you living this way?
It does say to give to those who ask,
Questioning why, is just not our task.
Now I know it’s hard to hear these strange things
When the poor are viewed as lazy and deserving of shame.
But God’s riding incognito throughout this land
Are you willing and able to give God a hand?
"God didn’t say that," I hear in response.
Look it up for yourself, God said it more than once.
It’s embedded in Scripture for all to see
When you give to the poor, you have given to Me.*
*Proverbs 19:17 Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord,
and he will reward them for what they have done.
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