Poverty is our Problem!
When I saw this photo it really made me sad. To think that these ladies make less than $2.00 a day to work at this factory that supplies Starbucks their coffee...yet we pay over $4.00 a cup for coffee...does it make sense?
What can you do? What can we do? Poverty needs to change. We are God's hands & feet and we can make a difference if we really want too!
We all can "do something". I pray that I will never drink a Starbucks again without thinking about the poverty in Ethiopia and throughout our world. We haven't been called to a "rich" American life. As Christians we are called to take on God's image. What is His image? Jesus on this earth was the perfect image our perfect example...we are to try and mirror Him. He was not about stuff...about Starbucks...about Himself. He was all about you and me. He died a horrific death for me, for you. What can we do to sacrifice not just a bit, but a lot for Him? He didn't just attend church and sit in bible studies...he didn't just "do His day" and act Christian and pretend to be sacrificing, "Well, I went to church Wed. night instead of the ballgame." "I could have went to the lake Sunday but, I gave it up for church.". That's not sacrifice! Do you think He likes when we play this christian act? He wants us to be as serious as He was the day He bled on the cross for us!
Poverty is our problem...how long will we ignore the truth of why we are on this earth...we are here to be God's image...to reach the lost, to help the poor, to help the widows and orphaned. God says it right in His word. We are to be His hands and feet! It is our problem!
I am praying for Ethiopia...for the world...the poverty, the orphaned, the dying.
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