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Today is Blog Action Day 2008

Well I just found out about this Blog Action Day and even though the day is almost over I thought I would do a quick post. Blog Action Day is a day when thousands of bloggers commit to write about a single topic. This year’s topic is Poverty, so that is what this post is about.

To talk about poverty we need to have an idea what it entails or means so a quick Google search gives us a definition at wikipedia. Wikipedia defines Poverty as “Poverty (also called penury) is deprivation of common necessities that determine the quality of life, including food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water, and may also include the deprivation of opportunities to learn, to obtain better employment to escape poverty, and/or to enjoy the respect of fellow citizens.”

So now we know what poverty is, lets walk with Michael W. Smith and SEE poverty

Wow, did you see what the water looks like. I was thinking about some of the thoughts that go through my head some days and comparing them to what I see in some of the other Poverty posts. I wake up some mornings and complain that I have to get out of bed because it is cold, some people don’t sleep because they don’t have a bed to keep them away from the cold. I drive to work complaining that the traffic is terrible and long for open roads that I can drive all on my own, some people get to work by cart, or even walking hundreds of kilometres, yes, that is walking by foot. That is of course if they even have a job to be going to. I can’t eat my sandwiches because the lettuce made the bread soggy, some people don’t have lunch, or breakfast, or even sometimes supper. I complain about the price of bottled water, because the water that comes practically free from the tap has too many chemicals in, for some the only drinking water they have is muddy or filled with sewerage. I complain about having the same meal more than twice a week, some have a 50kg of some practically tasteless porridge like stuff which last them a month, and they eat it every day, without fail, without spices, and without complaining.

Why do we complain so much? Why do we feel that the world owes us a better life? Who are we? Paul writes in Philippians 4:11-13 “Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need. I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.”
Paul says that he has lived in prosperity as well as poverty and Christ gave him the strength to live in whatever hardships God allows in us to build us up.
James writes in James 1:2-4 “Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” Is it not true that we learn from our mistakes? We may make a mistake, but we need to somehow turn the mistake around so that we learn from it and don’t repeat it.

Maybe you are not good enough for God to look after, after all he is very busy and my problems really are not very big. Well the bible says that God ensures that the birds have their needs met, so how much more convincing does it take to believe that He will look after our needs. Maybe we look at the wrong things when we look at other people. This video asks, “What do you see?”

MercyMe has released a song called “God with us” and it starts off asking the question, “Who are we, that you are mindful of us” It goes on to say that our offerings are not enough when compared to the unbelievable gift that God has given us. Here is the video of the song for your viewing pleasure.

Well that is all I can think talk about this year’s topic, keep a lookout.

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