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Prices of Michael Jackson Memorial Tickets on eBay
Prices of Michael Jackson Memorial Tickets on eBay
Prices of Michael Jackson Memorial Tickets on eBay
Prices of Michael Jackson Memorial Tickets on eBay
Prices of Michael Jackson Memorial Tickets on eBay
After looking at the prices, please study the figures below (from World Vision):
- One out of four children in developing countries is underweight.
- Some 300 to 400 milion children are hungry.
- A child dies every five seconds from hunger-related causes.
- About 25,000 people die each day of hunger or related causes – 9 million people per year
- A child dies every fifteen seconds of a waterborne disease
- In United States and Europe, only 2 out of every 1,000 children die before their fifth birthday. In Africa, on the other land, 165 (16.5%) of each 1,000 are dead by age five.
- In Sierra Leone, the worst country in the world for child mortality, 28.2% of all children are dead by age five.
Poverty and Poor
After studying all of these figures, do you think the world is fair?? The answer is definitely “NO”. Do you still dare keep asking God why are there so many people starving in our world and God doesn’t care about it?
People willing to bid for two Michael Jackson Memorial tickets for $99,999,999.00 but not even willing to sponsor a child from World Vision only $35 per month! And, we still blaming God for not taking care of the poor. When you ask why God not taking care of the poor, poverty and starving, why not ask yourselves first?
Let us do a simple calculation. To sponsor a child, we need only $35. Buying Michael Jackson Memorial tickets willing to pay $99,999,999. If we divided $99,999,999 by $35, we can actually save 2857142 children. Wow, the children we can save is A LOT!!!!
You may say: I worked hard, I earned it, and it’s mine to do with as I please. Yes, you are correct when you think those are your money. But remember, those are not your money, they belong to God.
We think that we are entitled to any income that comes to us because we worked hard for it. But according to Bible, all we have or receive comes from God, He has simply entrusted it to us includes your mind, your talents and your skills.
Read the passages below:
10 When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.
11 “Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today,
12 lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them;
13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
14 when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
15 who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock;
16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end—
17 then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’
18 “And you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. (Deut. 8: 10 -18)
Brothers and sisters, the money, the talents, the skills, the mind you are having now are not yours, they are God’s. And God expects us to use it in the interest of His Kingdom.
Finally, next time when you ask why God allows starving, poor and poverty, you better ask yourselves first what you have done to the poor. Michael Jackson was the founder for Heal the World Foundation, what would Michael do if he is still alive?
