The United Nations says that the basic human right, is that every man, woman, boy and girl on the earth should have access to food, clean water and shelter. I agree. Safe dwellings, starvation and clean water are something we should all be a part of helping to make a reality for everyone on the earth. It is in our capacity to feed, clothe and hydrate the world if we can all work together. Nations working in unity could accomplish this goal. It is a massive problem.
There is still a bigger issue!
As a
Christian, I also believe that the basic human right is more than just
food, water and shelter. The basic human right is to be exposed to
TRUTH! Truth is not a concept, truth is a person, and that person is
Jesus the Christ. If that is true, then we should do something about
this issue. Some would say that it is arrogant to think that one
religion would have all the answers. That we as Christians would have a
better path to eternity than Islam, Buddhism or any other religion. That
it is arrogant to demand that every human being to be exposed to the
knowledge of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. That I am right
and that they are wrong and if they do not believe like me, they will go
to Hell. It is arrogant…..unless what the bible says about Jesus
is…TRUE! I believe that what Jesus said is true. I believe that the
resurrection of Jesus from the dead, is real and that it changed
everything. I can go to the tomb of Mohammad, Buddha or any other
religious leader in history, and I can find their dead body in their
tomb. However, I can go to the tomb of Jesus and He is not there, He is
alive! That changes everything. I also believe that what Jesus said is
essential. Jesus is not one way, Jesus is not some way, but that Jesus
is THE way to the eternity in heaven that we all hope for where we will
live forever with the eternal God.
If this is true, then a privatized Christianity in a resurrected Jesus is a curse to the nations, and not a blessing.
Silence is the enemy of truth!
The last command that Jesus gave to His disciples was to go into all this world and tell everyone that He is the Messiah, the way to eternity with God the Father. The resurrection demands a response that we would tell everyone that Jesus is THE WAY, JESUS IS THE TRUTH AND THAT JESUS IS THE LIFE! The Human Right is then more than food, water and shelter. It is the basic right to know the truth. That God so loved the world, that He gave by death, His one and only Son, so that whosoever would believe in Him, would never perish but inherit eternal life with this resurrected Jesus.
Until we see the lostness of man, we will still probably never do anything about this basic human right. Let us say it this way. What if we discovered that across the street form your house, there was found that a man had a room full of beautiful German Shepherd dogs. Then we discovered that on every Friday night, for entertainment, he would heat a fire poker in his fireplace to red hot.” Then we discovered that he would stick the hot fire poker in into the ears of these dogs, and then into the eyes of these beautiful defenseless animals. If we found this to be true across the street for your house, not one of us reading this would not stop and call the police, the SPCA and say,”someone must stop that man form torturing this dogs.” This would absolutely be the right thing to do to stop the torture. Here is my point. We pass people everyday that the Devil is torturing with drugs, alcohol, depression, suicidal thoughts and more. For the most part, we are unmoved by this happening all around us. We see the hungry bellies, the dying masses from water born illnesses and the war torn ares of the earth. We must respond and we must call the authorities to stop the torture. Our God has commissioned us to be the ones who would stop the killing of the defenseless, the hungry, the uninformed and that we might tell them the truth about Jesus. The basic human right is more than food, water and shelter. It is to know the truth about Jesus. That His love and His help and His hope is available to save them from their torturer. He is the way, He is the life and he is the truth.
So, what will you do about this? What will I do about this? Let’s join together and tell the whole world that this is not arrogance, this is the truth about Jesus! I dare you! It is up to you and it is up to me.
Carpe Diem