too much...

i was just updating my website section...i added some of the sites that i frequent just to stay up to date on the latest in the areas of justice,orphans, and the vulnerable...as i was looking through some of them, i just started thinking about how god must feel about the state of our world...

i started thinking about paul's words in philippians 2...he reminds us of how we are to treat others...its all wrapped up in humility, service, and love...but the best part of this passage is found in verses 10 & 11...

If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. 

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 

Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.

And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself
and became obedient to death— even death on a cross!

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.  (Philippians 2)

for me, its a reminder that even in the disgusting, depressing, evil world we live in, there is going to come a day when everyone...everyone...will confess christ as lord...every person who traffics children...every person who hates those that are suffereing with AIDS...every rich american who refuses to be generous to those who are in poverty...everyone who calls themselves Christian...and everyone who doesn't...everyone will know...

and on that day the poor, the sick, and the suffering will all experience love...and our world wont be so disgusting, depressing, and evil anymore...

just a thought...till later...