I finally did it. After weeks of dithering ,postponing and just plain forgetting, I got down to giving away permanently a part of my savings to a total stranger. Not easy, as it meant having to make do with less for family and self but ever since God spoke so clearly to me about releasing the blessings He's blessed me with, i knew it had to be done and i already knew the target recipient - World Vision. So it was i managed to get their contact from a fellow colleague who has herself been a World Vision supporter sponsoring a Mongolian kid for the past 7 years, logged into their website and pledged my little contribution to an unknown child somewhere in the world. I purposely didn't wanna specify any preferences, coz i wanted God to lead all the way...
And lo and behold, He sent me a child from.... India. Of all the children in the whole wide world, He sends me an Indian kid....ha ha, back to the land He originally placed a burden in my heart for... how appropriate!! and so now everyday i got somebody new to pray for... they sent me the child's profile, with her name, photo and family particulars...I showed her off to my kids; they pretended horror... oh no, we got an Indian 'god-sister'?!! My boy wryly comments, there goes watever little inheritance we gonna get from mom ; we prob gotta entertain a whole Indian village for Christmas now ...my no. 2 says when she tells her frens i m off to India on another trip, they always ask her whether her mom got an Indian kid stashed away somewhere...now she can tell dem, i actually do have an Indian kid!!...funneeee these children of mine , how i love them!!
Do i need another kid? Coz not. Can i afford to commit $$ that would/should be spent first on my own family needs?? After all, they say charity shld begin at home. Why take on other people's problems when we can't even handle our own?! Well, if we all thot this way, the world would be a terrible place to live in. Besides years of walking with a faithful God has taught me, when i take care of His business (and His business is simply the lost, sick, needy, unsaved of this world) , He will take care of mine. If we waited till we solved all the problems in our life, we would never get round to helping others who are in so much more need. Its like saying sure, i will donate my $$ when i hv put away enuf of my own,(which will never be enuf, we know),i will donate my time at the orphanage when i retire from my job (by then, we are either already too old to be of much use, or first need to go round the world, play golf, take care of own grand-kids, etc etc...so, the time is now or never.
But why World V? Surely there are lots of equally needy local homes, causes i can contribute to? True. Jesus says we will always have the poor with us.8 years ago, when i was down and out, God already put a burden in my heart specifically for kids. Every day i look at the kids in my kindy, my heart bursts. Every time i go for overseas missions, its the kids that tug at my heart strings. Its kids that will carry the future to come, for better or for worse ; not just in this land but in the world. So I put my $$ where God has put my heart in.... a 'world' kid.
Its a great feeling, not becoz i m doing something great, but becoz in letting go of 'my' money, i m set free from being controlled by it. It's a great feeling becoz in obeying His will, i experience the truth that it is so much more blessed to give than to receive...
" He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God...." Mic 6:8
