Just Feed One

Amos 5:24 — 
But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!

I have always been pretty convinced that I’m right about everything. I can’t help it! Ask my parents, or my friends, or my long-suffering husband. That, coupled with my strong sense of fairness, means I can be a bit of a pain to get into an argument with! The positive to these sometimes difficult personality traits, is that I like to just get stuff done and I get angry at injustice. Just don’t cross me if I’m losing in a board game!

There is so much injustice in the world to get angry at, and we can’t all be passionate about the same things. Discrimination, inequality, hunger, disease, ecological disasters, climate change. It’s all too much for one person to fix. And as Christians we know we can’t fix it, only God can. Prayer, fasting, intercession, they are all real tools against injustice in the world. Our God is a God of miracles.

But there are other, practical, ways to help. But that can also be overwhelming. And that’s why I love this very famous, and so important, quote from Mother Theresa, now Saint Theresa in the Roman Catholic Church:

‘If you can’t feed 100 people just feed one’ — Mother Theresa

It’s rare for one person to change the world but changing one person’s world is totally possible. 

Volunteer. Protest. Speak out and listen up. Give, financially and donations. It doesn’t matter how small you start out; one person is worth the ninety-nine in God’s eyes. Just feed one.

Jesus, thank you that you have won, that injustice will end, and your victory is assured. As the battle continues around us, guide us to those we can help, causes we can support, and change we can make. Amen.

Esther Rai