I started reading Ray Comfort's book "My Friends
Are Dying" last night. As I crawled under my warm covers, I wondered why.
Why do I, a 21-year-old young lady living in the United States of America, have
plenty of food to eat, a comfortable bed, a loving family, the joy and peace of
knowing Jesus Christ, and so much more? Somewhere else not very far away, there
is a 21-year-old young lady living in the United States of America starving
because she uses all of her resources to buy drugs
that she cannot stop using, sleeping in the wind and rain without a blanket, no
one even caring that she exists, and completely without hope of escaping the
downward spiral that she is caught in until she commits suicide, dies from
disease brought on by her lifestyle, or is murdered. Just a simple turn of
events and our places would have been switched. Why?
They might not be in MacArthur Park anymore, but they
are somewhere--probably somewhere much closer to you. Don't take what you have
(and I don't just mean material things) for granted. That could just as well
have been you. And don't hold back what you have (and I don't just mean
material things) from them. God has put you here "for such a time as
this"!
