Rich and Poor in America, Part 4

Is it possible, then, that when U.S. companies send jobs overseas that we should rejoice? Though it obviously causes hardships here, shouldn’t we rejoice with some of the world’s neediest who now can earn a living wage?

At times, though, it feels like we are throwing our own kids out on the street so that orphans can have a home. But isn’t there an element of trust we must consider? Isn’t God still committed to meeting the needs of his children? Though the company you work for has not pledged to feed and clothe you for life -- God has! “Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feed them. Are you not much more valuable than they?” (Mt.6:25,26)

I recently talked with a man who lost his job and lost a benefit which would have provided his daughter with a nearly free college education. He was obviously disheartened, believing that his daughter would now have to attend a cheaper, secular school rather than the Christian university she planned to attend. But where is the father’s trust? Is our God really so small that he had to throw his hands up in the air and say: “Shucks! Now she’ll have to attend a school which isn’t my first choice for her.” Too many of us ground our hope and our security in our jobs or our IRA’s or in our government. Shame on us.