Please watch the above video before you read this

If you have not watched the video about Africa please take a minute and go back and watch it.

I have asked God countless times why I live with such blessing and luxury and billions, BILLIONS, live with such lack and heartache. I spent years asking, sometimes I asked Him politely, sometimes I was not so polite. I knew that the answer had to lie somewhere within us, I knew He would answer me if I continued to pester Him long enough and He did. He began to point out that more often than not our excess of luxuries was doing nothing but killing us; killing us through addictions to food, drugs, alcohol, pornography, and that list goes on and on. Killing us through our greed and materialism, killing us through mountains of debt, killing us through broken relationships that have splintered and fallen apart because of our constant need to please ourselves. He pointed out that our abundance was actually hurting us so I began another string of questions ~ why then give us so much if it is only killing us. Why allow Satan to kill them by their lack and allow him to kill us by our abundance? Billions have too much and become their own ruin and billions have too little and waste away, Why??? And then, He explained that our abundance was meant to meet their lack, it is killing us because we have greedily held it as entirely our own. We have gripped so tightly to our things that we are squeezing the life out of ourselves and those that desperately need what we have are dying every second of every day. He gave us so much, He gave to us so freely that we would give so much and give so freely. So, the answer is simple in His eyes; we must give everything we have to meet their needs, we must give everything we can to save them and in doing so we will bring salvation back into our own lives, our own families, our own churches. The gap between our two worlds is HUGE and they can not bridge that gap, they can not bridge the gap because they must strive every hour just to survive. No, the burden falls on us to bridge the gap and then we will see that it was not just "they" that needed salvation but us that so desperately needed salvation. It is so profoundly simple, it is so God. I need Africa more then it needs me ~ I hear Him say "bridge the gap" everyday. We need it with the same intensity that they need it. Satan can not kill us with our abundance and them with their lack if we give it all to level the playing field, if we bridge the gap.

Did you know that 40,000 children under the age of 5 die everyday due to malnutrition? Bridge the gap...

Did you know that almost 2 billion people, about 1/3 of the world's population have not heard the Good News of Jesus Christ? Bridge the gap...

Did you know that there are 147 million orphans worldwide? Bridge the gap...

Did you know that only $1 dollar out of every $100 dollars goes to this 2 billion? Bridge the gap...