"The tension is here..... Between how things are and how they should be." Switchfoot
In the developing world, 22,000 children under the age of five die every day from preventable causes.
1.4 billion people (one in four) in the developing world live on US$1.25 or less a day.
"...and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday." Isaiah 58:10
I find this quote extremely sobering...makes me shudder in fact.
"In my experience, 95 percent of believers who face the test of persecution pass it, while 95 percent who face the test of prosperity fail it." - heard by Randy Alcorn from a leader of a persecuted church in Romania
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