Barbara heard the knock on the door. It couldn’t be Fred and Anton, they were out walking along the tracks searching for pieces of coal that might have fallen off the train. They would need the coal to stay warm this winter.
She opened the door. An older man greeted her with a wide smile that almost covered his unshaven face. A young man stood several feet behind him, his head hanging low.
“Good afternoon, Ma’am,” the older man said. “We was wondering if you might be able give us a bite to eat.”
“Sit down on the steps, it will be a few minutes.”
This is a true story, during the Great Depression, Barbara and others like her, gave from the little they had to serve the poor.
“If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you do not give them the necessities of the body, what good is it? So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead.” (James 2:15-17).
Who has God placed on your “front door step” needing to be served?