3.21.2009
I'm excited about this weekend's kick off of a new series. I sat down and re-wrote the message because I just wasn't feeling the original transcript I put together. Definitely amped about tomorrow. See you guys there.
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I dont think its hard to see that there is this great imbalance in our world that things just aren't right. I know that,but how often do we really sit down and think about it? It really hits me when I think about this very moment, because its happening RIGHT NOW and I have seen it on missions trips to Vietnam and to Mexico and I see it here in Virginia Beach. To think that in this same moment we have a generation sitting around entertaining themselves by watching reality tv, which is anything but real, while a child is being prostituted beheind closed doors robbed of their innocence breaks my heart to pieces. I sit down and I think of how its not fair that we can go about consuming every single material that comes our way while their are widows and orphans stripped of lifes basic needs because they are victims of a conflict thats not their own. I sit here crying as I write this to you because I see a generation choking on their obesity while 30,000 children die from lack of food TODAY. Its kills me that we can go spend a few dollars on a plastic bottle of chlorophied tap water with a fancy label while communities like Ta Phin suffer from foul and polluted water, communities of people dying from a lack of clean water because all they have access to is disease infested water. It boggles my mind that we can sing and dance in our freedom and liberty while slaves remain out of sight and out of mind. It makes me angry that we can sit and watch the news from the comfort of our living room and pity those who live where the storm hit, the ground shook, where water rose, where drought remains, where war leaves children abandoned and simply feel sorry for them for a moment and then change the channel like nothing happened and get on with our dinner. I dont see how its fair that when we see a homeless man we just ignore them and keep walking and give them nothing in assumption that they're going to buy booze or cigs or suggest to go get a job. Who are we to judge an alcoholic, an addict, a prostitue, or a criminal as if we are any better? Who are we to forget the downtrodden or the opressed while we go out chasing 'the dream'? We see this imbalance and say "its not right" "thats not fair" but too often thats all we do... its just words with inaction because for us to do anything is actually going to cost us something and if thats where it ends perhaps its only fair to say that when we ignore a prostituded child we actually lend a hand to their abuse, that when we ignore the widow and orphan that we actually add to their pain, that when we we ignore the slave who remains captive that its us actually entrapping them, that when we forget the refugee its us displacing them. When we chose not to help the poor and the needy WE are actually robbing them. Perhaps the only fair thing to say is that when we forsake the lives of others we actually forsake our own.
I think that people underestimate the power they possess to change lives. Thanks for the inspiration and thank you Jason for serving at our church.
-Cessily Mull