This blog will depart from my normal philosophical and theological track- so I'm sorry- but I needed to rant just a little. I have to watch what I say though because of some of my readers- I dont' want to get myself in trouble. Pretty sad that you cant' be completely open and honest on your own blog, but hey, you know how it is. If you question anything, go against the status quo or be negative in any way, or even if you're just generally disagreeing, you're seen as gossiping or being rebellious. So, I guess I'll just speak in generalities. (I may have earned myself some questions just by making those statements.)
Ok there's no way to say this but just to come out and say it. It's amazing to me the things money is spent on. Why do I go spend $20 on a DVD when I could give it to a needy family and their child could have a lunch to take to school for a week or two? Or 5 of us could give up a DVD or our Starbucks coffee for a couple of days(and just drink the free coffee at work) and we could help pay a family's high electric bill so they wouldn't have to go without AC in these hot summer months. Or help them pay for gas in their car so they could get to work to support their family. Or send some bibles to China to those who have never had the privilege to own a Bible, much less read one! (I've got at least 25 Bibles in my house, all different versions, not counting the ones on my Palm. And there are millions of Christians around the world who don't own one. Instead of spending $50 to buy me another one, that same amount could buy dozens in a foreign country!)
Instead of raising money to buy new chairs at your church, how about keeping the chairs you have and sending that money to buy chairs for a church overseas who has been sitting on the ground(and probably doing more for the kingdom than your church)!
I waste money too, so I'm not trying to be self-righteouss. God knows Alisah and I could do better. But I'm not just speaking about individuals. That's not even my main point. I think there's a lot of wasteful spending. it irritates me, when money is spent on insignificant things when there are so much more important things that can be done. Things that actually impact the Kingdom. Things that make a difference to Father.
The end of the movie Schindler's List always gets me- it's the end of WWII, and the Allies are closing in on Germany, so all of the people who had been loyal to the Nazis are trying to escape Berlin so they are not captured or killed. Oscar Schindler is looking at all of his possessions, and saying very remorsefully that if he had just not spent the money on those things, such as his car, his jewelry, watch, coat, he could have paid for more Jews to come to work at his factory so they didn't have to go to the death camps. His words are "I could have saved 1 more".
How much money have we spent on unimportant things that we could have used to impact just one more life with Father's love? I think it's an extravagant waste. And that's all I am going to say about that.
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