Steve Sikes Blog
Steve Sikes Blog
When our children were the ages of 4, 6, 8, and 10, I asked them one evening over supper what they wanted to be when they grew up. When it came time for our youngest daughter to answer, she said she wanted to be a widow. She went on to add, “But I don’t want to get married – I just want to be a widow.” At the time I was the pulpit minister of a congregation that had over 65 widows. What a positive impact they had made on my daughter to want to be like them!
Our family regularly visited one widow, Margaret, in particular, that lived across the street from us. It was easy to see Jesus in Margaret; she was so faithful, giving, loving, serving, and kind. I’m sure Margaret was uplifted by our visits, but I always came away even more encouraged to live a more godly life than before! Maybe visiting godly widows is one way God helps us keep unstained by the world! “Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.” James 1:27
God is good all the time!