What do you do when children with torn, dirty clothes, and no shoes are holding out their hands to you as you walk down the streets of Kenya? What do you do when a little girl asks you to be her sponsor so she can have food and clothing and go to school? How can I just walk past them? How can I, who has been blessed and given so much in my life not reach out to them? I can reach out my hand to them, pick them up, and tell them Jesus loves them, but what about Jesus’ command to feed the hungry, clothe the naked? What about the one, stopping for each and every one. What can I do in those moments going to and from ministry. I don’t have any money, and I don’t have any food. My heart turns when an adolescent boy calls out to me on the street asking for money, what do I do? What do I say? I am trying to be like Christ, and what would that look like? I am still trying to figure this out. I don’t know the answer and I don’t know what to do. I want to give them everything I have, I want them to feel Christ’s love for them, and I want them to feel my love, but when they are hungry and thirsty right now, in this moment and I don’t satisfy those needs, how do they feel that love and acceptance? The need is so great. Please help me.
