Leave Some for the Desperate

Is there a portion of your life (income, effort, energy) devoted to the care of those in desperate need? God commanded His Old Covenant people to remember the fatherless, among others.

"When you reap the harvest in your field, and you forget a sheaf in the field, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. When you knock down the fruit from your olive tree, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow. When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not glean what is left. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow. Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this."

So if we were to modernize this passage (and bring it into the New Covenant) it might say something like, "You used to be a spiritual foreigner, a spiritual orphan, a spiritually vulnerable person needing the compassion of your heavenly Father. You received that compassion and are no longer a stranger, an outcast, an orphan. Now then, go bless others and care for them in My name."

What are you doing for the foreigner, the fatherless, the widow?