What Should We Do?

It is difficult for us to grasp the truth that 35,000 children die every day of easily preventable diseases and malnutrition. Especially we Americans fail to understand that cars, phones, refrigerators, televisions, couches, dining tables, running water, electricity and even our beds are luxuries that tens of thousands of our fellow human beings will never have. We see pictures of starving children in war torn countries and then hop in the car and go to Burger King for a Whopper and never give the child a second thought. It is not that we are selfish or hard hearted, but those people and their poverty are so far removed from us that we just don’t get it!
The truth is there is poverty in the world, terrible, bone crushing, heart breaking, life-robbing poverty and God expects us to do something about it. “Blessed is he that considers the poor…” “As we have opportunity let us do good to all men…” “But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?”

What am I going to do?

Children from the Village of Hope in Ghana West Africa