He Knows

I want to share a quote from the book "A Hole in Our Gospel" by Richard Stearns. He states, "There are some 340,000 individual congregations in the United States, which together possess unprecedented resources and capabilities. There are also hundreds of thousands of poor churches in the developing world, whose members struggle with daily survival. I try to imagine how this looks to God as He sees all His churches--the wealthy and the needy--and wonders why the churches he has blessed have not reached out to the poor, burdened brothers and sisters."

Stearns is the president of World Vision. I certainly hear his heart in this statement. The only thing I would challenge is the word "wonder." God does not "wonder." He knows why we are not reaching out to our poor burdened brothers and sisters. We are too absorbed with ourselves. We are lazy and apathetic. We will only be inconvenienced to a point. We want a starting point and an ending time to our "missionary projects." I am sure you get the point.

Let us be reminded of Isaiah 29:13 "The Lords Says: 'These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men.'"

For the Sake of His Name,

Craig