Injustice

Today. Today in the world approximately 7 billion people call earth their home.

Out of those 7 billion people, there are 250,000 thousand child soldiers.

Out of those 7 billion, about 3 million women, girls, and even a small number of boys are currently enslaved in the sex trade.

Every year 1.5 million people die of hunger. That's one child every five seconds.

Every year 3.4 million people die of a water related disease. That is almost the entire population of Los Angeles.

Statistics, as sad as they are, have a way of numbing us to the pain and reality of the situation. Let's break it down.

These people aren't statistics. These people have faces with names who have dreams and hopes. In reality, they're probably not much unlike you. These people are someone's daughter, son, wife, grandparents, husband, baby. These are real people, not just a number written down on a piece of paper. These people are not just statistics.

We could talk for hours of the different injustices in the world. The list goes on and on and we've only mentioned a few. If I were to ask you what the biggest injustice is, what would you say? Is it abortion? Is it the alarmingly rate of orphans whose parents have died of aids? Is it the lack of clean water and food?

While all of these are important issues, there is a bigger issue at hand. It is an issue that all the other issues stem from. The biggest injustice in the world is that there are people out there in the world today who have never heard of the name of Jesus. That is where all of the under issues fall under. I remember on my mission trip to Nepal we met a lady who have never heard of Jesus and God and so, beginning with creation, we shared the Gospel with her. How do you explain the Gospel to someone who has never heard of Jesus? Living in a Western culture, it's difficult for us to wrap our minds around the fact that there are people who haven't heard of Jesus. But the fact of the matter is, people are dying everyday without ever hearing about Jesus.

And what are we doing about it? Please know I'm not trying to guilt trip you into going on a mission trip (even though I'd highly recommend it!) or anything like that. But we must learn to capture God's heart for the nations. We must begin to realize how desperately he loves these people, these people who have never heard about His Son and live their lives in captivity and fear and hopelessness. Because, you see, Jesus died for these people just as much as He died for you and me and all of us living in the Western world. We are blessed to grow up in a country where we have all heard the Gospel multiple times but we can't be selfish with what God has blessed us with. Pray that God will give you His heart. Pray that your heartbeat will become one with His.

You don't have to go overseas to tell people about Jesus. I promise you that, if you really look, you will realize that you are surrounded by people who desperately need Jesus. Maybe they've heard of Jesus before but their perception of the Gospel is warped. There are people who are broken, homeless, hurting, lonely, feeling unwanted and unloved and desperately need to hear about a personal God who loves them so much that He gave up His most precious Son to die the worst possible death so that we wouldn't have to be separated from Him for eternity. I challenge you to go out and radically love others!