Too hard to handle

This morning I went shopping for a shirt & started thinking about how the material wealth American believers enjoy compares to what folks living in Third World countries can expect.

A majority of Americans expect a job with a 40-hour work week, a new car every 3 years, the chance to buy and own a house, safe food, prompt health care, a comfortable pension for retirement and a life expectancy approaching almost 80 years.

Third World Citizens work whatever job they can get, have never seen a new car or made a telephone call.

Seems hard to understand why we were born into so much, while believers in the Third World were born into so little.

Maybe we shrug and think, "Wow that's gotta be pretty hard, living with so little."

With so many blessings it's sometimes easy to forget where our wealth came from ... and what about the suggestion that we keep God's commandments and honor him with our offerings?

Naaaah that's just too hard, living with so much.