Open your eyes and look across the world. What do you see as you look at television, surf along the internet, or walk on the streets of your hometown or village?
The whole world is a play, a big performance, and people are in their places and performing their roles, their parts. They know what to do and how to do it, what to say and when to say it.
Some are religious, and some are beggars .
Some are politicians, and some are in prison.
Some are carpenters, and some are thieves.
Some build up, and some tear down.
Some soar in the sky while others sail on the seas.
Some drive cars while many walk.
What are they doing, and what are they accomplishing?
What are they living for and dreaming about?
Some aren't living for much, and some aren't dreaming about anything.
Many are inflicted with pain and suffering, dying from diseases, infections, and starvation, while many are throwing away more food than they consume.
Many would give all they have to give for a cup of water, a piece of bread, a hot bath, or a blanket for the cold of night.
As we open our eyes and look across the world, what is the hope for people to have a better life?
Life is not fair, we say, and of course it is not. Many born in wealth stay in wealth, but many born in poverty remain in poverty. At the same time, many born in poverty attain wealth, and many born in wealth squander their fortune.
But how are people to arise above their circumstances if they do not know how, or where to begin? What if they do not believe they can get up on their feet and walk out?
At the same time, millions of people are born into a world of deep poverty that they have no knowledge that a better world is available outside their boundaries. Perhaps their community has never had a pioneer, or explorer, to find a better place and come back to show them the way. Thus they live and thus they die without ever knowing that they can live any other way.
Just as people are born in poverty and with no knowledge of a better life, people are also born in spiritual poverty and they have no knowledge of Christ. Thus all they know is darkness.
In coming to know Christ, we begin to see with new eyes. And now we see the world as God sees the world: that people are in their places, living their roles, but there is an emptiness inside of them that can only be filled with the love of God. Though they may be poor, or though they may be rich, there is an emptiness within all of us that will always remain empty until we allow Christ to come into our hearts and into our lives.
The internet opened a door for Christian missionaries, for now we can write about the wonderful love of God and people all over the world can discover the love God has for us. For people on the internet are looking for something, and many are looking for love in all the wrong places. They are empty, they are tired, and they are searching for that which will satisfy their souls. And when people meet Christ on the internet, they can share this Good News with their own families and with people in their own communities. They can also read the Word of God by going to www.bible.com as it is written here:
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. (First Corinthians 13: 1-3)
And if my writing does not reflect the love of God, through Christ our Lord, my writing is in vain, and I am nothing.
The love of God never fails.
The whole world is a play, a big performance, and people are in their places and performing their roles, their parts. They know what to do and how to do it, what to say and when to say it.
Some are religious, and some are beggars .
Some are politicians, and some are in prison.
Some are carpenters, and some are thieves.
Some build up, and some tear down.
Some soar in the sky while others sail on the seas.
Some drive cars while many walk.
What are they doing, and what are they accomplishing?
What are they living for and dreaming about?
Some aren't living for much, and some aren't dreaming about anything.
Many are inflicted with pain and suffering, dying from diseases, infections, and starvation, while many are throwing away more food than they consume.
Many would give all they have to give for a cup of water, a piece of bread, a hot bath, or a blanket for the cold of night.
As we open our eyes and look across the world, what is the hope for people to have a better life?
Life is not fair, we say, and of course it is not. Many born in wealth stay in wealth, but many born in poverty remain in poverty. At the same time, many born in poverty attain wealth, and many born in wealth squander their fortune.
But how are people to arise above their circumstances if they do not know how, or where to begin? What if they do not believe they can get up on their feet and walk out?
At the same time, millions of people are born into a world of deep poverty that they have no knowledge that a better world is available outside their boundaries. Perhaps their community has never had a pioneer, or explorer, to find a better place and come back to show them the way. Thus they live and thus they die without ever knowing that they can live any other way.
Just as people are born in poverty and with no knowledge of a better life, people are also born in spiritual poverty and they have no knowledge of Christ. Thus all they know is darkness.
In coming to know Christ, we begin to see with new eyes. And now we see the world as God sees the world: that people are in their places, living their roles, but there is an emptiness inside of them that can only be filled with the love of God. Though they may be poor, or though they may be rich, there is an emptiness within all of us that will always remain empty until we allow Christ to come into our hearts and into our lives.
The internet opened a door for Christian missionaries, for now we can write about the wonderful love of God and people all over the world can discover the love God has for us. For people on the internet are looking for something, and many are looking for love in all the wrong places. They are empty, they are tired, and they are searching for that which will satisfy their souls. And when people meet Christ on the internet, they can share this Good News with their own families and with people in their own communities. They can also read the Word of God by going to www.bible.com as it is written here:
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. (First Corinthians 13: 1-3)
And if my writing does not reflect the love of God, through Christ our Lord, my writing is in vain, and I am nothing.
The love of God never fails.
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