What Can You Do?
You can join in with one of the many great initiatives happening already. Micah Challenge and Make Poverty History are both geared to see the world living in a more equal way. Or check out the Salvos or Red Cross to see what you can do for people closer to home.
It might be as easy as giving blood; but it might take a little bit more. It might take you not buying the latest ipod – and giving your money to help some local homeless people buy food and shelter for a few weeks. It might mean sacrificing those new shoes you’ve been craving – and helping provide a new water pump for an entire village. What looks like no money to you is probably a lot of money for a whole lot of other people.
A small book in the Bible, Micah [chapter six, verse eight] says, ‘What does the Lord require of you? To act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with your God.’
To act justly means that we help to make these things go away – not by burying our head in the sand, but by actually doing something to make a change, for the better.
It means that you love mercy. You don’t believe that you should be well-fed and others should starve. You feel something, sad or uncomfortable, at the thought of someone crying themself to sleep lonely. It means you care, and want to make a change, for the better.
It happens when you walk humbly with your God. Through knowing God you experience a different side of life. You know that God loves things to work justly, so you start to love it too. You know that He is merciful, so you start to be merciful too. If you know God, you know that you don’t know better than Him, and if He acts justly and loves mercy it means it must be the best way to live.
Letting God change your world, will often mean that you become part of changing the world for others…for the better. What would the world look like if everyone behaved in this way?
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