Apathy

You know, I’ve had people ask me why I’m even bothering to go to university if I really am so riled up about using money for such a means? I mean, then I should just go straight into NGO work. I don’t quite have an answer for that, except that I believe that having a degree would be greater help than not having one, I just don’t want to spend more than necessary.

In YG, we’ve been studying James and how our faith is to be a living one, one that is shown through works. I know, we should show love to all those around us and everything. But I wonder if it’s more than that. It seems very empty for us Christians to be sitting around in our air con chapels, praising God and asking that He use us for His purposes. It all seems rather empty. I know, I, too, am sitting here in front of a computer while others in neighbouring countries are starving.

But then a question (and I don’t know whether it’s a right thing to be asking) bugs me, “What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to drop everything? Become a pauper, drop all my dreams and ambitions to go and serve the hungry in Africa?”

And a small voice whispers in my head, “Yes.“