Heart For The Broken
27 Aug 2011 Leave a Comment
It’s been a long while since I have blogged! Life has been great, and I can’t believe summer is already coming to an end. Mummy is almost coming home as well! I am so excited. It has definitely been one crazy year, but I’m loving every minute of it! I finished exams last week, and since then, I’ve been trying to make the time to meet up with different people. It’s always good to catch up with old friends, and you always end up hearing such interesting stories from them that makes you go wow.
As some of you may know, Africa has been suffering from one of the worst droughts in decades. It breaks my heart when I see images on the news that are so disturbing. I see images of famished children, and I wish I could just hold them in my arms and just feed them with everything I have at home. It reminds me once again how blessed we are to live in a society where we have everything. And I mean EVERYTHING. We have the best of everything in Canada, and on top of it, I live in Beautiful British Columbia! People always complain about the weather, or about small little things and when you compare it to bigger issues that need our attention, those small things don’t even matter at all.
When I hear heartbreaking news on tv, I could always switch it off and pretend that none of these problems ever exist. End of story. Sadly, that’s not the case and these problems don’t go away on its own with the click of a button. I wish it did. There are people out there who are in desperate need of our help to save them.
These problems don’t only exist in Africa, or in the poorest areas of the world. It happens right at home. I think one of the biggest things that have hit me the hardest is seeing the poverty back at home (in Malaysia). You could say that we have a good life back at home. I go back home for vacation, meet with family, go to church, catch up with friends. It’s all the same.
The one thing that I’ve been slowly exposed is the level of poverty that these people are experiencing. To be honest with you, I will have to say that living standards in KK (Kota Kinabalu) is very expensive. I don’t know how people who make RM 400 a month (equivalent to $150 CDN) are able to survive. These people have families too to feed as well. To me, I could spend RM 100 in a day and not even think much about it. But to these people, every dollar makes such a difference.
When I think about the church back at home, I feel like we’re not doing enough to help these people. People attend service, worship God, and then go home. What’s next? What is the purpose of attending a church by the end of the day? I believe that by helping these people, you are showing the love of God to them. Tell them that “Jesus loves you”, and it is the greatest gift that one could ever receive.
One of my resolutions is that the next time I go back at home, I want to do mission work and to reach out to those who are in desperate need of our help, who are just right outside our doorsteps. I think it just adds a whole new meaning to home and that we don’t just blind ourselves from what’s actually happening in this world. I believe that God is a God of love and justice, and why He would allow these things to happen is that he wants us to be able to grow and trust in Him by helping those in need.
Are you giving a helping hand to someone today?
