A Choice

"So when you and I hear staggering numbers (greater than a billion people live and die in desperate poverty, surviving on less than a dollar per day ~ twenty-six thousand children will die today due to starvation or preventable disease) and statistics (eighty percent of the world population lives on less than ten dollars per day) about the poor and needy among us and around the world, we have a choice.  We can switch the channels on our mega-TVs and continue our comfortable, untroubled, ordinary churchgoing lives as if the global poor don't exist.  We can let these numbers remain cold, distant and almost imaginary.  Or we can open our eyes and our lives to the realities that surround us and begin considering the faces that are represented by these numbers."  David Platt ~ Radical

"Then those 'sheep' are going to say, 'Master, what are you talking about? When did we ever see you hungry and feed you, thirsty and give you a drink? And when did we ever see you sick or in prison and come to you?' Then the King will say, 'I'm telling the solemn truth: Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored, that was me—you did it to me." (Mt 20:37-40 MSG)