“You Did Not Feed Me”
We laugh and rant and carry on, complaining and talking of things we want. We grumble and gripe as if the world was all a wash of dark colors. We sing without joy and speak without meaning. We scream and shout and wander about. What is this life we live, if not a meaningful one? Why should we even exist if we do not know why we exist?
People in other places, times, cultures do not know of the life we live. They do not complain, they do not whine. They are used to poverty, used to emptiness. Used to work, used to hardship. Their grim day-to-day life looks like what we think of as hell. Their families are broken; they feel no love. They don’t have the good news, or any way of hearing it.
So why are we sitting here, not moving, stagnant? Why do we act as if we do not have anything we want? Why do we talk as if we have nothing worth anything? The reality is they know what nothing feels like, and we don’t. They know what hunger is and we have no clue. They work tirelessly and never stop trying. We’re lazy and don’t like to put in any effort. They would give their lives to live ones like ours. We aren’t even aware of the luxuries we have.
What is there left to do but lay down and throw it all in the towel? What can we do? We have no control over the world and the atrocities that people are living in.
Or we can stand up, open our eyes and put ourselves to work. We can stop flirting with our phones and put down the T.V. remotes. We can take action and live how we were made to live. Like Christians in a broken world. Lights in a dark place. Fire in a forest, burning ablaze. The world is here for so little a time. Soon there won’t be opportunity. Right now, there is. Let’s get up and put ourselves away for others. Spend the rest of our almost already spent lives giving life to others. Work and never stop working. Spreading the gospel, spreading the wealth. Jesus didn’t just forgive sins; he fed the hungry. So instead of blowing a couple hundred bucks on things we don’t need, let’s use those couple hundred for the needs of those who have them.
Read Matthew 25: 35-40
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