God's Word

If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him,

how can the love of God be in him?

Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

(I John 3:17-18)

Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:

to loose the chains of injustice

and untie the cords of the yoke,

to set the oppressed free

and break every yoke?

If you do away with the yoke of oppression,

with the pointing finger and malicious talk,

and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry

and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,

then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.

The Lord will guide you always.

(Isaiah 58)