What kind of shape or condition is humanity in? Most people have a romanticized version of the human condition. We want to see the sanitized version of humanity. There are people who live in abject poverty and slavery today. Years ago, I went to visit my wife’s relatives in Mexico. They were middle class Mexicans, but not all were so blessed. They lived in the mountains around Monterey. As we traveled up the mountain, there were cardboard houses on the hill side. Yes, cardboard houses that people lived in. and Mexico isn’t a 3rd world country. Then there are the homeless, people on the streets of the world. There are estimated about 150 million people homeless. That is half of the population of the United States. The statistics are overwhelming. What can I do with such overwhelming odds?
This is where the real lack of power shows up. It is not for us give up. It is for us to find a solution. The world population is 8 billion people. What if one person takes care of one person. God knows that you have the resources to care for one extra person. There is a story about this very subject in the bible. It is the story of Lazarus the beggar. He was sitting just outside the walls of a rich man’s house. The rich man was just concerned with his money and goods. Lazarus would have been happy with scraps from the rich man’s table. Lazarus and the rich man die on the same day. The rich man wakes up in hell and Lazarus in the arms of Abraham. The rich man calls out to Abraham, send Lazarus with water to quench my thirst. Abraham says I can’t. You had everything in your life, now Lazarus has everything he needs. And now you will suffer for your greed.
We are made out of the dust of the earth and the breath of God. God gave us our mind, will and intellect. That is who we are. Then we are born and live on this earth to learn. We learn different things accordingly to our parents, locations and other people. Man has a capacity for doing good and evil. We are born knowing how to lie, steal and cheat. Then we are taught to be kind and gentle to our fellow-man. Although we were given the power of gods, we were not given to power to control ourselves. Look around and see the inhumanity to man that we are capable of. God shows us how we can walk on this earth and live like him. It takes courage to live righteously. It takes nothing to live in sin, but it costs us our own souls. The same problems we have today are the same problems people had in the beginning. The message from the beginning has never changed. We are sinners and are separated from God. If we confess our sins and ask for forgiveness, God will forgives us and accept us into the kingdom of God.
Crain Blanchard.
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