Day 6: Give a Chicken

For $13 I can feed a hungry family for many years...this reality bothers me.
Why, when I have an extra $13 or $15 in my pocket do I start thinking about how I can spend it on myself? Do I spend it on a movie, or do I spend it on a dinner at Chipotle's? Worse yet, I usually think of some reason that I DESERVE that movie or that I DESERVE that dinner. Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against movies or Chipotle; but I am curious why my mind wonders toward self-gratification more readily than wondering how that extra $13 could actually do good in the world. One chicken can feed a hungry family for many years, and one movie will entertain me for a couple hours. When we put those two things on the scales it seems pretty obvious what the most logical, ethical, and Godly way to use the $13 is, yet it takes effort for me to think this way, and often effort also requires a level of discomfort and guilt as well. These two ugly cousins work together to dissuade me from actually developing my idea of what is "right" in DOING what is right. Have you ever felt this way? What stops you from using the $13 in pocket to do what's right? Why haven't you bought that chicken yet?

Personal:
Did you buy a chicken or something else from the world vision website? Click our "Buy a Chicken" link in the Quest sites to buy one today. Name three or four ways you have spent $13 in the past few months.

Action:
1. How many chickens do you think you have eaten in your life? How many times have you gone to KFC? How much money do you think that all adds up to? Do you think it's right that many people in America and other parts of the world have gone their entire lives buying and eating literally tons of chickens without ever buying one for a hungry family in the world.

2. What does God expect of you? Seriously, what do you think? All this talk about chickens and $13 has me wondering, what does God really expect us to do with our money?