FOODS FOR POOR MAN'S TABLE – WHO IS TO BLAME?

A brand New Year is coming a few days from now. A New life for some people, a new hope for those who still keeps holding on to hope, but for the rest of us, it is a beginning of the same old story, the same old struggles, and the same poverty that may even seemed reached pass into the extreme.

Amongst every word that Jesus has uttered, how can we forget the words when He said to us "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." (John 10:10) but unfortunately when we look around us, what do we see? Do we see life as how God meant it to be, do we see pictures of beds of roses, and milk and honey. No we don’t, instead we see reality taking the best of us. We have been left behind by time and we remained silent while hopelessness fills our eyes. We consume our daily lives with questions that we ourselves do not even understand let alone aspire to answer them.

What can we do? Where do we go from here?

Before, we were use to seeing Scad fish and rice as the food for poor man's table. That was not very much but acceptable. Now it seems as if everything shifting instead of scad fish you'll see hardboiled eggs, noodles and rice on there table. Just imagine 8 children shares one glass of coffee for breakfast, you feed 10 mouths with five hardboiled eggs for lunch, and for dinner a total of 3 noodles. It is very sad to admit but these are the reality of life.

Can we blame God for this kind of life? Or can we blame the government? Perhaps we can blame ourselves for all the wrong choices we have made?

All I can say is that nobody who is in their right mind will ever consider this kind of a life style. No one asked to be born in bondage. But within every cry this I know, just as long as there is life, as there is hope.

Remember, God is full of mercy and compassion and love to those who suffered, the weak, the despondent, he is very pitiful – He feels for them, He feels with them. And His words and ways, His promises and His gifts, His plans and His poses all manifest His grace. We must not forget there is God watching over us and will lead us from anything the world can set in our way.