“Sell all that you own and distribute the money to the poor” (Luke 18:22).
Once upon a time a woman in tattered clothes and her sad-looking little boy stood on a big city street corner begging for food, or money to buy food. It so happened that among the passersby was a wealthy man who looked but neither spoke nor offered any help. But when he arrived at his palatial home and looked upon his dinner table laden with the finest foods, he began to think about the poor little waif and his distressed mother. And the more he thought about that situation, the angrier he became at God. Then he clenched his fist and shook it in what he thought to be in God’s direction. “How can You allow such misery?” he cried out. “Why don’t you do something to help those unfortunate people?” And, somewhere, deep within himself, came God’s answer: “I did. I created you.”
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