The Case for Orphans

Who are some of the most neglected and vulnerable people in the world? Unfortunately, it’s the orphaned children. At this time in history there are more orphans than ever before. Twenty million orphans are estimated world wide with one child orphaned every 30 seconds.

Every child deserves to have their basic needs met. Shelter, food, clothes and compassionate care are basic human requirements. We all need to feel love and a sense that we belong. We need fellowship and relationship with others. If we are deprived of our basic human needs we will suffer and eventually die. God calls himself a father to the fatherless. He knows that children need His help. Every civilized culture and every major religion has heard a clear message.

It is our responsibility as believers or followers to take up the case of the orphans. In James 1:27 it states:
“Pure religion and undefiled before God is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction.”

Job’s righteousness was found in the fact that in Job 29:12 he ‘delivered the poor when he cried out, the fatherless and him that had no helper.’

In Deuteronomy God instructed the Jewish people that every third year all of the tithe or offering was to be allocated to the fatherless and the widow. Helping the orphans is basic and foundational to humanity, and Christianity. We all suffer when we do not reach out to the neediest amongst us. Our life is enriched and our reward is great in our giving to others, especially the orphans.