“You know, it’s not hard to see that this is great imbalance. And that things aren’t right. You know, I know that, but for me I suppose, it really hits home when I actually stop and think about it this moment. Cuz, it’s happening right now. In the same moment you have a generation who is sitting around, entertaining themselves, watching reality TV shows, which, so be honest, is anything but real, while, you have a child who is being prostituted, and robbed of their innocents. It’s not fair that, we can go about consuming every single material object that comes our way, while the widow, or orphans are stripped of life’s basic dignities because they are victims of a conflict that simply isn’t theirs. It’s not fair that there is a generation that is choking on it’s obesity today, while at the same time there’s 30 thousand children who will die today from lack of food. It’s not fair that we can, you know, sing and dance and jump around in our freedom, and in our liberty while at the same time, the slave remains captive, out of sight, and out of mind. It’s not fair that, we can sit and watch the evening news at home in the comfort of out living rooms and pity those who, who live where the storm hit, or where the ground shook, or where the water rose, and simply feel sorry for them, and then change the channel and get on with supper. Is it fair to walk past the homeless man, and give him nothing with the assumption he will spend it on booze or cigarettes. Or that you should suggest that they go out and get a job? I mean, who are we to judge the alcoholic or the prostitute, or the addict or the criminal…

as if we are any better?

…Who are we to forget the oppressed while we go about chasing the dream? We see this imbalance and we amend “that’s not right. That’s not fair.” But little too often that’s all we do. Because for us to do anymore, is actually going to cost us something. And if that’s where it ends, perhaps then it is fair to say that when we ignore the prostituted child, then we actually lend our hand to their abuse. That when we ignore the widow and the orphan in their distress then we actually add to their pain . When we ignore the slave who remains captive, then it is us who is entrapping them. That when we forget the refugee, then it is us who is displacing them. When we choose not to help the poor and the needy, then we actually rob them. Perhaps the only fair thing to say is that when we forsake the lives of others, we actually forsake our own.”

-Hillsong United

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