Wow.
My first blog post.
I created this blog to speak about biblical and worldly injustices. As a member of InterVarsity’s Justice Team for the year, we have the goal of making God’s heart for justice known. The cool thing about that is that we all have our own passions toward justice that God has given us. My personal passion is poverty, for example working with the local homeless shelter, something anyone can do in any city.
Some basics about biblical justice:
- God created us and this world in His image to be perfect and complete
- After the fall of man, sin created brokenness
- Biblical justice therefore is the restoration of God’s kingdom
- We all have spiritual gifts that God has given us and He calls us to USE THEM
- 1 Corinthians 12:26-28
- We need to become involved to make a difference! We can show God’s love through ACTION
- James 2:17 – “In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.”
- Meeting someone’s physical needs first (ex: feeding the homeless) gives us a gateway to sharing the Gospel and help their spiritual poverty. Our power comes from God and He calls us to love everyone, no matter their circumstance.
As a Geography major I am studying and am very passionate about water and energy poverty, typically in developing countries. Water.org says that 750 million people lack access to clean water. That fact just breaks my heart. It’s also very intimidating. It’s always hard to look at a huge global problem because it makes you feel small and makes you wonder what you can really do. This is something I’m still looking in to but there are tons of organizations out there that are working towards solving this problem including World Vision, Hands4Others, and Water Missions International. If we just look at our problems as being too big for us to handle, then nothing will ever get done! This is a call to action. Even if you only donate some money, anything helps.
So that’s currently my aim for this blog: speak about and bring light to the current injustices in this world, putting in my own two cents and viewing the events as a Christian who wants to make a change.
Sincerely,
Erin
If you want to check out some more facts about water poverty then you can go to http://water.org/water-crisis/water-facts/water/
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