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"There's a popular bumper sticker that reads "God Bless America," but hasn't America already been blessed? It's easy for us to fall into a mindset of viewing "our" world as "the" world, because it's all we generally see. We're constantly bombarded with images of the latest styles and models of everything, and it can easily leave us feeling like what we have isn't enough because we see people that have even more than us. But how does what we have compare to what most people in the world have? Maybe what we have is enough; maybe it's more than enough. Maybe God has blessed us with everything we have so we can bless and give to others."
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- The U.S. population accounts for about 6% of the world, yet we use 40% of the worlds resources.
- 92% of people in the world do not own a car. Between you and your family how many do you have?
- 1 billion people in the world do not have access to clean drinking water
- 800 million people, 300 million of them children, will not eat a meal today.
- 1 billion people in the world live on less than $1 a day
- To supply food and water to the entire world is would cost about $20 billion a year. This is less than we in the United States spend on ice cream in a year.
"Let's be honest. It's easy to go to a church service, it's easy to read the Bible, it's easy to discuss who believes what and who's right and who's wrong. It's easy. But when Jesus talks about his followers, he talks about people who are generous, people who clothe the naked, take food to the hungry, take water to the thirsty, people who visit the prisoner, people who invite the stranger in, people who give their time, people who give their energy, people who give their money." Rob Bell. When face with a situation don't ask yourself, "what can I get?" Ask yourself "what can I give." For Jesus it's not about having everything, it's about being content. It's about taking hold of the life that is really life.
May you come to see that you're rich. And your possessions, they're luxuries that most people in the world don't have. And may you do what Jesus says, may you step into your divine responsibility to give, and when you do, may you take hold of the life that is truly life. - Rob Bell
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this post brings back interesting memories of that dreadful facebook note around election time. HA remember? :)
ReplyDeleteanyway, this has been very refreshing to read.
even when i can make a sort of self-proclamation that i am a grateful person, that i am financially responsible, that i don't ever consider my own circumstances to be among those categorized as 'unfortunate'...i know that more often than not, all three of those statements could be considered lies.
because proclaiming these things, and actually living them...abiding by them....well, those are two very different things.