To receive knowledge means to be made responsible for responding to that knowledge.
In saying this...only read further if you are desiring to act.
We have it all. We have every resource at our fingertips. And we have a world crisis just a google click away from description and the plea to arms. Is anyone out there? We get frustrated with a slow internet connection while in the time it takes to connect there are hundreds dying of starvation. Poverty...one of the key problems plaguing this world...one of the key problems linking other world issues such as human trafficking, abuse, abandonment, drug use, etc. It is a major root epidemic. What are we doing about it?? What are you doing about it? Pick a problem...any problem...this world is drowning with issues that remain untouched. With every resource we have in this generation...we are still not acting. We could pioneer so many job ideas...use arts and media to generate income for people...we could co-create with God to solve problems. But instead we are ok to live in the muck of complacent ignorance. its disgusting.
Pick a nation...understand the many injustices that erase the dignity of a human being. Its not hard to find...we just don't look...and if we happen to see...we either numb our minds n hearts or look the other way.
Brazil, India, Africa, Thailand...you pick...extreme poverty---extreme injustices. Babies getting thrown to crocodiles if their teeth grow in the top before the bottom ones come in---a tribal ritual of believing that child will bring a curse upon the whole group if left to live. so they toss it in the river...or bury it alive...or leave it tied to a bush for animals to eat. This happens. Now you know. What are you going to do to make a difference? These people are hungrily awaiting truth...a chance for a different way...there is no parent who wants to kill their child. These people need hope. And we hold that hope that could transform not only lives but cultures. What will we do with it?
Street kids...living on top of garbage dumps. their lives lived as a daily task of survival. scavenging through the trash for remnants of food...drinking pitch black water from the garbage infested creek...freezing during the night. Society depicting them as monsters or trash themselves...these "monsters" have the faces of normal little boys and girls, except everything about their lives is far from normal. These kids will only make it to their 30s. They are SO desparate for life...for hope. We have it! What are we doing with it??!!!
Parents selling their children into prostitution. Sometimes unknowingly, sometimes knowingly. Girls as young as 5/6 years old...some younger. Entering a life of living dead. They will never be the same. They need some hope too...they need some practical resources and new ideas. I think we are capable of meeting the demand for new ideas...i think we are more than equipped to tackle all of these problems head on. The problem doesn't lie in whether or not we are capable or if we have the resources or dreams to accomplish change...the problem lies deep within each one of us: Complacency. A lack of urgency in responsibility to respond. The problem is that the harvest is more than ripe but there are very few workers. its not CAN you do this...its WILL you? Will you respond. This is one question that you don't really need to pray about. I think that God is more than ready to say YES!!!!! GO!!!!! DO!!!!! Come on...that's his heart, is it not?
These exhortations have been brought this week from our speaker---showing us the immense opportunity to pioneer on behalf of God's people. It stokes me up so bad!!!!! i can't contain myself...how freaking blessed are we??!! Who are we that the God of this universe calls us to bring forth his name to the nations...to bring forth hope to people who are walking dead. We are so privileged...lets use it.
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