Loose Change

      How much spare change do you have in your pocket or purse?  Spare change can be classified as those loose coins that are roaming around with no specific place to claim as their own.  We often get frustrated with the spre change and so find some container in which to put it.  Canning jars, jugs of all sorts and tine cans soon become the depositories for all of your loose change.  Then, you have to go to some place where you can pour the change into a container and it will count it for you and give you paper money instead or you can roll it all up and take it to the bank, but who wants to do that. I have heard it said that if you have spare change at all, you are among the top 15 percent of the wealthiest people on earth.  Acts 1:8 says, “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”  People need to hear the Gospel message of salvation.  We are, however, feeding the masses a bunch of costly platitudes that reap no benefits in the end.  False religions abound as the greater mass of people pursue after paganism rather than the Lord Jesus Christ, and if you are not pursuing Christ, then you are pursuing after paganism according to Romans 1.  You can read it for yourselves.  Then, whose responsibility is it to send forth the gospel to the people of the world?  It would fall on those who have the resources to accomplish the task or the group that is classed as the richest in the world to share their wealth by sending forth the Gospel message.  It was once reported by a missionary, Harold Stevens, that the world spends more on pet food than it does in sending forth the gospel message.  The task was not just for the evangelical churches but they are failing in the task as well.  Usually 94 percent of the money that is given to missions remains in the United States and so never goes to a foreign land.  The huge masses of Africa and Asia don’t hear of the message because it never gets to them.  What does that mean to you and me? There are ways in which we can channel some of our “loose change” to mission groups who are responsible and Biblical in their mission activity of spreading the Gospel message.  You can give, you can pray and you can go.  Choose which of the three ways you want to be involved in being a part of world missions.  Praise God today that He is still sending forth the  message of salvation and that the final call has not come, but it is getting closer.