What really matters

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At the end of the day it’s people isn’t it. I was speaking at a church conference on missions today and the keynote speaker is a wonderful man who heads up World Outreach http://www.wointl.com/.

He has dedicated his life and his family to helping those who are suffering through persecution, poverty and spiritual blindness. His personal motivation is God, as mine is, but whatever your cause it needs to be bigger than yourself, it needs to be something of value to you. And when you visit a nation that is suffering under dictatorships or poverty, even so called paradises like my beloved Fiji, it makes you realise that people are what matters.

It would be very sad if the Kea became extinct or we lose a special Kauri, but how important is that really next to babies dying in our own country through abuse, the youth who kill themselves because they can see no hope when they are only 16?

Or what about nations like India, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma and many others where people die for no good reason every single day. Whether you are an atheist, Satanist or Christian, surely compassion for our fellow man is something that should define us as human beings, something that makes us different to every other species.

I pray that you find your “thing”, your cause, your purpose. It will not only bring you great joy and fulfilment, just knowing what it is, however as you pursue it, it will sustain you when things get hard.

And if your pursuit of a compassionate goal causes you to bump into Jesus, as it almost inevitably will, say Hi from me.

Stay Safe Dean Letfus @ www.massiveaction.co.nz (AKA Dean Leftus @ www.massiveaction.co.nz)

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