Where Do We Get Off?

This is from a young man in Bible college in south FL. His family are members of my church, Liberty. Cam was in our youth group and has participated in just about all of my dramas and drama classes. He's always been a great kid, but this level of maturity is a beautiful thing to see. Especially in someone I've watched grow up!

"Where do we get off?

(American Dream)
11:47pm Monday, Dec 10

So I've been doing a lot of thinking lately.

And one thought keeps coming to mind...

Where do we get off?

Where do we get off complaining about not getting an iPod for Christmas?Where do we get off complaining that we don't have an SLR camera?

Where do we get off complaining that the food in the school cafeteria tastes like filth?

Where do we get off complaining that the coach section of a plane isn't comfortable enough?

Where do we get off complaining?

Period.

How many times have you seen a video of people in Africa jamming to an iPod or taking artsy fartsy pictures with an SLR?

The kids in Sudan.

Uganda.

Darfur.

Mexico.

Bosnia.

On the streets in America.

Wherever.

A lot of them are lucky to get one meal a day.

Lucky to have one shirt.

A pair of shoes.

A mat to sleep on.

Any kind of shelter.

Where do we get off?

This is what I challenge you to do.

Watch Invisible Children.

Think globally.

Think about the homeless.

Think about others.

Your money.

Our money.

It is a blessing from God.

We are blessed.

Why don't we share the wealth?

Why don't we bless others with what we have excess of?

But let's remember what we have.

Let's be thankful.

I go to the best school on the face of this planet.

I get 3 meals a day.

I am going to have an amazing Christmas.

I am 19 years old and have never gone without.

I have a Savior who loves me more than life itself.

Literally.

Let's look at what we have.

Let's thank God for what we have.

Let's be happy.

Let's help others.

Let's be used of God.

Let's reach out.

Let's be a blessing instead of a mass of consumerism and selfishness.

Let's do what we were called to do.

Let's fulfill the Great Comission."Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned"(Mark 16:15-16)

Let's do what we were meant to do.

Let's wake up the church.

Let's wake up America.

An America that cares for its neighbors.

An America that cares for the needy.

An America that cares for the suffering.

Let's start a brand new American Dream."

Cam Harless

I can't think of anything that I can add to this.

Lara