You may have seen this since it has been passed around the internet quite a bit this week. But not all evil is as big and bad as Joseph Kony. Most of us don't know war criminals and terrorists, but we do still come face to face with evil.
Sometimes, we probably don't even notice it. Sometimes it is small things, comments that eat at us, things in our past, looks from people that make us uneasy...
What kinds of evil do you struggle to face in your life?
Are there bigger evils in the world that you want to fight against?
I would just advise people to do their homework before sending money to anyone.
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It is like when you give money to a homeless person. You don't really KNOW if they are in need but you do what you can. On judgement day, I will say that I did what I could to help. I advise people to follow their hearts and let the Lord take care of the rest.
ReplyDeleteUpon reading this, I was encouraged. Finally something I felt like I could get behind in the "faith" I keep hearing about. Then someone always ruins it. Thank you, Bubba, for reminding me why I won't have anything to do with the church or the "loving", "caring", "sacrificial" people it inhabits.
ReplyDelete:( We are all human but it is frustrating. I'm sorry you feel that way.
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Just because we are Christians doesn't mean that we can't be wise about where we send our money. God blessed us with minds, I believe he expects us to use them.
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I'm going with you missed the point of the post.
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We can be smart about where we send our money. But we also need to be wise to the smaller evils in this world, such as turning people away from Christ by getting caught up in petty off topic arguments. Money is talked about a lot in the Bible, and we are told to be good stewards. But love is talked about even more. We need to practice the latter more than we hold on to the prior.
DeleteWe are called to help others, love others! We should be living our life as Jesus did. You wouldn't see Jesus turn and walk away from someone without helping/showing them love!
ReplyDeleteWe need to do what we are called to do! I know I certainly will!
1 Peter 3:8-18 ESV
ReplyDeleteFinally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing. For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit; let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.” ...
There is so much evil and pain. All I can do is my very best, holding on to scripture and praying to the Lord.
-Jodi
Maybe I'm misreading, but isn't the author's point to look at the evil in the world and do what we can to stop it? It's not about supporting any one organization or fighting any one evil. It's about looking at the world around us and being aware of all the evils and mindful of all we do and don't do to fight it.
ReplyDeleteYou got it. Right on point.
DeleteYes I agree. .. You have the right point. Smiles!
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Sometimes it's easy to get so caught up in the huge issues we forget that there are small battles to address every day. Good reminder.
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ReplyDeleteI apologize if I wrote something offensive. However, looking at the words of my post, I'm having trouble finding what it could possibly be.
I can't find anything in my short post that defends Kony, or evil, or human trafficking, or child soldiers, or anything else I presume most people would find offensive, so surely it can't be that.
I assume you live in the United States as I do. Our founding documents recognize that you have a God-given right to own property and dispose of that property as you see fit. That includes your money. I also can't find anything in my post that presumed to tell anyone what to do with their money. The one and only thing I did write was an advisory to do some homework on this or ANY organization to which people might send their money. In fact, I feel rather silly having written it, because I have no doubt that you or anyone else would thoroughly vet any charitable organization before sharing hard-earned money with them.
My Bible indicates that I'm to be a good steward of the finances (great or small) with which I've been entrusted. It's none of my business how you spend yours. I take it from your post that you assume, however baseless that assumption, that I'm either heartless or greedy. Now I don't need to defend myself to you because just like it's none of my business where you spend your money, it's not yours how I spend mine. However, as it happens, I HAVE given money to benefit people in Uganda though the Ugandan Water Project.
http://blog.beliefnet.com/gospelsoundcheck/2011/08/artists-making-a-difference-jesse-sprinkle-and-the-ugandan-water-project.html
"I'm going with you missed the point of the post."
I didn't miss the point of what Andy wrote. I made a side comment. I apologize to Andy that my innocent comment ended up hijacking his post. As I mentioned this morning in class, I couldn't come up with any immediate examples of "evil" that I see around me, but we had a good discussion of what exactly constitutes evil.
The example I suppose I could have used is the fact that my friends the Tkachs are dealing what such a sudden and unexpected death of a relatively young member of their family. Now most people will probably say, "Wait, how is that evil? People die. That's nature." But that was not the design. We weren't created to die. Death is described as the last enemy. Romans 8 reminds us that the entire universe, all of creation, is cursed by death as a consequence of sin. Thankfully, Greg Tkach knew the One who conquered death and revels in His presence today.
Mark - Very nicely put. :)
Delete-Jodi