Make a Better Life for Children

Make a Better Life for Children

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In every nation, great or small there are poor people. From time immemorial, the eradication of poverty has been on every responsible government’s “to-do list”. Yet, there are still poor people everywhere. People who can’t feed properly because they have no food, people who can’t afford decent clothes because they have no money, people who sleep on the streets, in the slums, and even in the dirt because there is nowhere to call home. It has always been so, but must it linger?

No matter what community, society, or nation, poverty gnaws at a high percentage of children deprived of the right to live a decent normal life, like a tsunami consuming a small city. Even our Lord Jesus Himself mentioned in Matthew 26:11 “the poor, you will always have with you” however, He never forgot the poor and still remembers them even today. They are always on His mind.

Children are God’s most valuable asset, they are made in God’s image and likeness and created to glorify God but how does poverty bring God glory? How can these poor children serve God and praise Him when they can’t feed, clothe, sleep, even read? Life for them is parched and dry.

No wonder, when Jesus proclaimed His works in Matthew 11:2-5, He said; “the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hears, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them” indicating to us that we must bring glad tidings of great joy to the poor through preaching the Word and also through meeting their physical needs. This is the way we can bring people out of the shackles of poverty. Our Lord Jesus did not ignore the poor, why then should we?

It is our reasonable service to remember the poor and take care of them for in each child is a potential seed for greatness and every child is unique, with unique qualities, gifts, and talents that the world needs which can shine forth if not limited by the confines of poverty. We are the hope that the poor have; no government can help them as we can, they need us because we have the power by the Spirit and the Word to change their state of existence.

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