Just
sitting here thinking about how different our lives will be in just a few
months! Thank you God for the countless blessings that you’ve given us, and thank
you for this opportunity to go and be your hands and feet! I know we can
all be His hands and feet right where we are, but He is going to open our eyes
to things we’ve never had to think twice about! Christ tells us to go and do as
He did, but how can we do what He did with out having the compassion that He
has? My prayer is that He will give us such a burning compassion for what we
see, that it doesn’t stop when we get back! That it burns so much in us that we
think about it as we lay down at night.. that we cant just ignore it.. that we
do something about it! Jesus tells us we should love our neighbors as
ourselves~ yet knowing the poverty that’s out there, we still are consumer
happy.While people are out there starving we have more clothes than we can
count and we are always adding more to the closet.. and I don’t know about you
but the amount of 5 dollar coffee’s I buy in a year could probably support a
whole town of starving children. Yet here in America I don’t experience that,
so when I hear about it I think about it for a moment but then I just go about
my day and let the thoughts escape me. As I sit here in my comfy house on
my comfy couch with my comfy blanket I think about how that must sadden Christ.
I think to myself.. Well we do pay $45 a month to support a child, but my
Spirit says, to you… that’s less then one meal when you go out to eat. Love
your neighbor as yourself is the SECOND GREATEST COMMAND of God! Am I
doing that? Are we doing that? I
question and ponder.. If I’m true to myself my answer is no. I think of the
story of the widows offering in Mark 12:41-44 ” Many rich people put in large
sums, and a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a
penny. And He called His disciples to Him and said to them, “Truly I say
to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to
the offering box. For they all
contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had
to live on.” Now I know God has blessed us so I’m not in the widow’s
situation, but even in our riches do I want simply to give out of abundance? Or give God all that I have? All that I am
