• What Will Your Grandchildren Say?

  Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2011 (message contributor)

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  Scripture:  Ezekiel 16:49-50

  Tags:  Poverty

WHAT WILL YOUR GRANDCHILDREN SAY?

Max Lucado shared this in Outlive Your Life:

A few years back, three questions rocked my world. They came from different people in the span of a month.

Question 1: Had you been a German Christian during World War II, would you have taken a stand against Hitler?

Question 2: Had you lived in the South during the civil rights conflict, would you have taken a stand against racism?

Question 3: When your grandchildren discover you lived during a day in which 1.75 billion people were poor and 1 billion were hungry, how will they judge your response?

I didn’t mind the first two questions. They were hypothetical. I’d like to think I would have taken a stand against Hitler and fought against racism. But those days are gone, and those choices were not mine. But the third question has kept me awake at night. I do live today; so do you. We are given a choice--an opportunity to make a big difference in our lifetime.

(From a sermon by Gordon Curley, Forgotten, 11/18/2010)