Keep Your Eye On The Goal

Cause someone is watching!

If you could fit the entire population of the world into a village consisting of 100 people, maintaining the proportions of all the people living on Earth, that village would consist

57 Asians21 Europeans14 Americans (North, Central and South) 8 Africans

There would be: 52 women and 48 men 30 Caucasians and 70 non-Caucasians 30 Christians and 70 non-Christians89 heterosexuals and 11 homosexuals

6 people would possess 59% of the wealth and they would all come from the USA80 would live in poverty  70 would be illiterate 50 would suffer from hunger and malnutrition 1 would be dying 1 would be being born 1 would own a computer 1 (yes, only one) would have a university degree

If we looked at the world the way we should, we could see the need for Bible Study and understanding. The world is not in good condition today and will be lost without change.

2 Tim 2:15-18 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; Who concerning the truth have erred,

If you woke up this morning in good health, you have more luck than one million people, who won’t live through the week.

James 5:15 Is anyone among you sick ? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick , and the Lord will raise him up.

If you have never experienced the horror of war, the solitude of prison, the pain of torture, were not close to death from starvation, then you are better off today than 500 million people.

Matt 24:6-8 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars . See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.

If you can go to your place of worship without fear that Someone will assault or kill you, then you are luckier than 3 billion people.

If you have a full fridge, clothes on your back,

a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are wealthier than 75% of the world’s population.

Matt 6:31-34 "Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things.

If you currently have money in the bank, or in your wallet and a few coins in your purse, you are one of 8 of the privileged few amongst the 100 people in the world.

1 Tim 4:8-10 For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance. For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men,

If your parents are still alive and still married, you’re a rare individual.

Matt 19:8-9 He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery."

AND SO, IS IT ROUGH LIVING IN AMERICA AS A CHRISTIAN?

Work like you don’t need the money. Love like nobody has ever hurt you. Sing like nobody is listening. Live as if this was paradise on Earth.

But realize this isn’t heaven Even if we are better off than others