A student shared a lesson at FCA this morning about serving those in need. It is always powerful to hear these high school kids passionate about helping others. The student shared a particularly powerful quote that I had never heard before from an anonymous source ...
"Sometimes I would like to ask God why He allows poverty, suffering, and injustice when He could do something about it."
"Well, why don't you ask Him?"
"Because I am afraid He would ask me the same question."
God wants to use us in our world. Sometimes we forget about all the horrible things other people face because ... well it's other people facing them - not us.
Out of sight, out of mind.
We are called to show His love ... but too often we try to show His love through only encouragement and prayer when we should also be DOERS.
"Be doers of the Word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves."
James 1:22
DECEIVING yourself. That is powerful. We deceive ourselves ... we think donating once to Haiti is enough. We do our "good deed for the day" and then we check that off. I'm fully convicted of this too, mind you. I want to be doing more. Helping more. And I hope you do too.
"Let us not love with WORDS or TONGUE, but with ACTIONS and TRUTH."
1 John 3:18
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