People assume and believe America is the greatest country in the world. They assume if you can just get to America, all your problems will be solved in a very short period of time. Well, as true as those statements are, you will be shocked to discover it is not true after all.
Do you know that this same country has 33 million people who do not know how or when they are going to get their next meals? Did you know that more than 8 million Americans regularly go hungry? Or that 3.5 million Americans have no place to live? Or that by 2012, the homeless population is expected to double in size (This statistics was collected in 2008).
Well, that is just America – the expected giant of the world, where Africans run to for greener pastures. A country noted for opportunities and wealth. Think about the population of those classified above and imagine the statistics of an African country, say Nigeria. I am sure you know what the figures would look like.
According to the world development indicators 2007, published by World Bank, more than 70% of Nigerians live on less than a dollar (that is about 160 Naira in Nigerian currency) per day, and the situation has not gotten any better since then.
Roughly out of every five human beings on the Planet-Earth – that is, more than 840 million people – are malnourished. Upward of 153 million of them are children under the age of five. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, some 6 million children die each year as a result of hunger and malnutrition. Everyday, some 40,000 children under the age of five die from hunger and preventable diseases. That is 24 children a minute. It is not much of a funny discovery, is it?
Fortunately, People are helping; Individuals, Organizations, Churches, Foundations, Estates and Co operations donate billions of dollars yearly to mitigate these problems and reduce the population of suffering people. Surprisingly, we still have suffering people. This means that the donations will never be enough, it will only help to some extent.
The summary of it all is this; The World owes you nothing, neither does it me, but you owe the world. Yes, you owe the world. God created you for a purpose. He designed you so that you will give back to the world. The world needs your help. The world needs your quota. If you think your riches is enough for you, think again. Help those who need help around you. If you think there is no reward here on earth, my Bible made me understand you have a reward in heaven. Strive to be great so that you can make this world a better place, if not for yourself, let it be for that child who might be the next to die in the next 10 seconds.
This is sad...How I have long to help more...I live in America, and yes there are those without, some have nothing, some by misfortune, others by choice, sad to say, but true. There are some who are very wealthy and others who live like it, although if they lost there jobs they could lose everything because they live above their means, in great debt, as many Americans. But there are some who live like kings and continue to want more, my question is when is it enough?
ReplyDeleteI know that when you work hard you have the right to have nice things, (we sow and we reap) but what if people today had the heart of the New Testament church, WOW! We could only imagine how different things could be.