These are my thoughts for today...

Well… yesterday was the end of a long, but wonderful weekend. You see, at our school we had a youth conference, a revival retreat if you will. The theme was missions, specially “hard to ignore”. What is hard to ignore in the world today? You might ask.. Well, one of the things is poverty or destitution. There is so much food that the world provides, it is a wonder why people starve at all. And the answer is the way that people distribute food is flawed, more than a billion people are lacking basic necessities, while the ones that are wealthy, develop health problems due to the amount of nutrition that is in western food these days. It is true that a lot of these poverty people are unable to find a job especially people who are in third world nations, but here in Canada, with the state-of-the-art tech, its health care and welfare system you would think that we would be able to eliminate beggars, but that’s not the case. Therefore, I have determined that most beggars here beg not because they lack money but because they lack hope. Hope for a better future, hope that can change their lives.

What is hope?
One of Webster’s definitions of hope is “to expect with confidence” As Christians, we have hope because we know that Jesus is gonna come back, and that God will triumph over the Enemy. Non-Christians don’t know where to put their hope in, so they put it on material things like computers, cars or work/school or relationships bf/gf/wife/husband, friends whatever. And because the world is not perfect, people get frustrated when the hope that they place on these earthy things break. Hope is important and to know where to put hope is imperative.

What do you think?