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  Just Call Me Dirty
   It’s me. I am the dirty one that has allowed terrible things to happen. It is I who have sat in my comfy home enjoying endless wealth, all the time very well knowing that millions out there have nothing. I have  seen it with my own eyes.
  
 
 
I am the christian that has sat on that despised fence not willing to be hot or cold. I am the one who has had the dead faith. I am the one who has looked at Jesus right in the eyes and turned the other way.  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
    It was me who nailed him to the cross with my sins and then ever since have spit on him with all my hypocrisy. I have stepped on His very life, that He gave in place for mine, acknowledging Him with my words and then slapping Him in the face by denying Him with my life style. I am done making excuses. God is calling my soul to an awakening.
 
 
 
3,000,000
 
This is the average number of children who have died during the year 2010 from preventable diseases or starvation(www.emptytomb.org)
 
$47,000.00

This is the number the average American spends per year. (www.justanswer.com)

$1.00
 

One Dollar. This is the amount that over one BILLION people live and die on each day. Living their whole entire lives in extreme poverty (http://www.brookhills.org/)

 

Matthew 25:31-46

 
“Then The King will say to those on His Right, ‘Come you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritence,  the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord when did we see you hungry and feed you? Or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothing and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go visit you?’

“The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for the least of these brothers, you did for me.’

“Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

“They will answer, ‘Lord when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick in prison and did not help you?’

“He will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, YOU DID NOT DO FOR ME.”

   When Jesus says “I tell you the truth” in this last verse, it just makes my very core shudder. Whatever I did not do for that beggar in the street, or for that bare butted child in Africa…. I DID NOT DO FOR HIM.
   It is I, Danielle Madeline Contarino, who am guilty of this more than anyone. I think back to all the times this past year when I have passed by Jesus on the street. He was sitting one legged, blind, without food, He was sitting there thirsty, having no money, He continues sitting there looking up at me asking me (who claims His name as my own) to help him. And how many times have I just looked straight at Him, right in the face! … and just walked right on by.
 
  
 
 I have recently been reading the book of James which is all about Faith and deeds. You cannot have one without the other. I have read the book of James so many times before and just happily went along living my life. I was ignoring the things I didn’t want to read, or just making intellectual reasons in my head why the things said in this book did not apply to my life. IT ALL APPLIES TO MY LIFE! The faith in my heart is evident by the fruit in my life. I know my deeds will not get me to heaven. But my deeds are the outward reflection of my inward heart. Faith that does not have fruit, is no faith at all. 
   In James it says that even deamons believe in God and they even have the emotions to “shudder” about it. I bet deamons have more faith than I have claimed to have at times. What sets me apart from the deamons that believe in God and shudder?
The faith that I claim to have is only evidenced by the deeds that come from an overflow of my heart.
The second greatest commandment is to love my neighbor as myself. This little girl in an orphanage in Asia is just as much my neighbor as my own brother is. I think back to that first number, three billion children who have died in 2010. Another estimate is three thousand a day. What if she was tomorrow’s statistic?  
 
 
Compassion International is an example of a mission that is doing a great work. For 36 dollars a month I could support a child. This would be one less child that would become a statistic. If I add that 36 dollars on top of what I am already spending. Maybe that’s a lot. But what would happen if I, broke down that 36 dollars into the daily dollars I spend.
 
  • I would think twice about spending three dollars for lunch at burger king, verses saving that three dollars and eating left overs from last night
  •  I would think twice about buying that pack of gum to freshen my breath, or saving even that dollar and just brushing my teeth.
  •  I would think twice about buying that $20 dollar shirt from the store, just to add it to my 50 shirt collection, when there are hundreds of children around the world, even in my own hometown, who are blessed even to have one shirt.
  • I would think twice about my two little friends here living at the orphanage in Kenya, drinking dirty water, barely enough food, and their only posessions being the clothes on their back.  
  
 
 David Platt is a Pastor at Brook Hills Church in Alabama. I have been listening to a series of sermons he did called “The Gospel Demands” . If anyone is interested in being challeneged to the core visit :
 

   David Platt is challenging his church and I want to make a challenge, for myself, and for any other radicals out there. Start waging the dollars we spend and separate the necessities vs the luxuries. Find some charitable fund, missionary,  homeless person, or start something of your own. Start being part of something that makes your heart beat. Be part of something you are passionate about. Be part of something great and start living the life Jesus has called you too. Start feeding those that are hungry in your city, start clothing those who have nothing, start living out the gospel. God is calling us to Radical obedience. He is calling us to a radical change in lifestyle. He is calling us to clothe Him. To Feed Him. To visit him while He is sick or in prison.

 

Whatever we did not do for the least of these we did not do for Jesus.