G-20 meetings are reminiscent of a story found in Job 1. It appears that the sons of God, the representatives of the various worlds in the universe, assembled before God. At that time Satan was the representative of our world. A dispute arose between God and Satan regarding a man named Job who would not yield to Satan’s leadership and who maintained allegiance to God. No matter how much pain and loss Satan inflicted on Job, he remained steadfast.
Leaders of the world’s strongest economic powers assemble to ponder our present world crisis. Never before in history have men come to realize how interdependent we have become. In times past one country could soar to a state of enormous wealth at the expense of everyone else. Those days are past. Our well being depends on the well being of our trading partners. Rapid transportation and instant communication have created a global village, a term we hear almost daily. And yet there are still poverty stricken nations with little or no hope of feeding themselves.
A great moral question facing each of us is, “Am I more worried about the declining value of my retirement funds than I am about starving people while I am surrounded by an abundance to which they have no access?” Years ago when we taught in Uganda, children would daily clean out the garbage cans behind our school dining hall so they could carry away the scrapes our students discarded. Jesus once said, “If you have done it unto the least of them you have done it unto me.” Today let us feed Jesus. Today make a gift to some organization that feeds the needy.
Written by Roger Bothwell on April 2, 2009
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