This is not a debate over the liberal or the conservative outlook of our governments, it is the critical responsibility of all. We can not ignore or allow the churches, governments or each other from neglecting, abandoning or abusing the needs of the elderly or the very young. Just because we are not “bound” to the Law does not excuse us from honoring it. The point I am making is that just because Jesus may not have addressed the caring of widows and orphans directly, it is still the our responsibility to see to the welfare and care of them. It became the responsibility of the Church, the Government and the individual to Obey and to serve God’s will. Not only for the Nation and its people but also for the leaders of the Religious community and for the leaders of each tribe of the Sons of Abraham. The Law was not only for the individual but for community. He established the Church and the nation of His people. And when God spoke to Moses and gave him the Law, He spoke to the Nation of Israel. When we say to God that we love Him and yet neglect those in the most need of care and assistance, we forget that Jesus said that we are to care for the least of these.
It is as if because we are “free from the bond of the Law” we seem to think that it allows us to ignore the needs of our church families and the needs of the many people throughout the world that are in special need of Christian Love. But it seems to me that in today’s policies that we have as churches and as communities forgotten that the Law of God still applies.
The caring of the “fatherless” orphans and the widows is a long tradition under the Law of God.