Gut Check 1.0
OK, so I read through the introduction and the Gut Check part of the book ‘My 30 Days Under the Overpass (Mike Yankoski)’, and WOW. I am already challenged, without even starting with the devotionals.
Here is an excerpt from the Gut Check 1.0
Flip on tonight’s news or go to a news blog and you’ll learn about the wretched things that are going on in our world – famines, epidemics, earthquakes, hurricanes, rapes, beatings, political chaos, slavery, human trafficking, just to name a few. When you look at all of it, it’s enough to make you feel really, really small, like there’s no way you can make an impact.
well, I want to let you in on a little secret: The world is not yours to change.None of us is big enough, influential enough, or powerful enough to end any one of the world’s major issues. The only person powerful enough to eradicate poverty or cure all disease or stop earthquakes is Jesus. But He didn’t do any of that. Jesus, in His wisdom, knew He couldn’t just come down here and fix everything for us; He knew we wouldn’t learn anything that way. Instead, He showed us how to live by spending thirty years on earth, setting the ultimate example for us to follow. He didn’t end poverty. Instead, He reminded us that ” you always have the poor with you” (see Mark 14:7)
But that doesn’t mean Jesus did nothing to help the poor, nothing to reach out to those whom everyone shunned. Instead, He lived with them, listened to them, ate with them (sometimes He brought the food), partied with them, healed them, wept and laughed with them…
Same with us. Yes, the world is messed up. There are a lot of hurting people and a lot of important issues. You can’t end poverty, stop earthquakes, or feed every person on the planet. But that’s no excuse to do nothing. If you’re a Christian, loving other people is not a “calling” you can patiently discover or wait for God to reveal to you. It’s a direct, non-negotiable command.
Like I said, WOW
Straight to the point, won’t you say.
Now, this book is structured in weeks, with an action day at the end of each week, so what I am going to do, is on every action day that I reach, I am going to blog about the challenges raised during the week, and hopefully, we will be able to get some conversation going on this, as well as, hopefully change some people’s views.
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