Set the world on fire

"If you don't straighten up I'm going to put you up for adoption!!" said a very annoyed father of two very energetic teenage girls fighting. This happened right infront of my eyes at Walmart yesterday the very day after I spent my entire Saturday in the streets of Philly feeding drug addicts. This comment bothered me very much. The daughters didn't even bat an eyelash at what the father said and it makes me wonder why.... are they that use to their daddy speaking like that to them? It bothered me! I just spent a day with people who have allowed drugs to take over their life and I wonder.. did their parents ever have anything nice to say to them? Or is this all they know because their parents did the same thing? Or maybe they had a great upbringing and made some dumb choices and here they are? I'm not going to know the answers if I don't get to know them. I would like to get to know them and tell them about the life they could have. A beautiful life their heavenly father died for. I truly had no idea what I signed up for I just knew I wanted to help more. I felt God prodding me to get out their and reach out and be His hands and feet so I signed up for the first thing that came along. A trip to Philadelphia to cook hot dogs while everyone else told them about Jesus and told them about Victory Outreach a place they could go stay at to get healthier FOR FREE! Carrie and I were knocking out the dogs let me tell you so I didn't have a lot of time to truly process what was taking place. I do remember one girl especially who was so shocked the hot dogs were free. She just lost her house and was so excited to get some food! Carrie gave her a hug and she was crying a bit. I do remember more being so thankful and excited over hot dogs. After the cooking was over we were standing there waiting for the grill to cool down I remember just taking it all in. The filth all around us, the trash, the people with no hope, the people going down the street for a temporary high and coming back up for free food or just conversation, the fighting, the whitnesses trying to show them hope telling them of a God who loves them. Jesus adores these people and most of these people just don't care about themselves. Most of them never had anybody to tell them they could be great in this world. Nobody positive in their life to speak great things into them! I can't sit back and do nothing anymore! I want every single person I cooked a hot dog for on Saturday to know Jesus! I can't rely on missionaries or strong brave Christians to do the job! I have to do my part! This life is not all about me! I am living for eternity who am I taking with me? This life doesn't end here and forever is a very long time how can I sit back and watch people suffer? How can I not even try?

Isaiah 58:10

Amplified Bible (AMP)

¹⁰ And if you pour out that with which you sustain your own life for the hungry and satisfy the need of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in darkness, and your obscurity and gloom become like the noonday.

 

We all make our own choices and even cause our own pain by those choices but Jesus never said let my people suffer. They chose to shoot up heroin instead of getting a job so let them suffer.....NO! We need to reach out and encourage them! We need to share God's love with this world!

 

 

Step it up! We have got to step it up!