I do not think that the world is going to change for the better anytime soon. What might be the worse problem facing the world today? In one word, E vil! The only way that the world is going to improve is if everyone joins in. To make the world a better place to live in it should start at home. Treat your husband or wife with love and respect, and that love will rub off onto your children and their children.
Teach your children to give when they are able to give. Get your children to pick out one toy each month that they do not play with anymore and that they are willing to give up. Take your child and the toy that they have chosen to give, go the nearest Salvation Army, women's shelter or which ever organization that you choose. Then take your child and get them to personally hand their toy to the person in charge of donations. They will be really proud of themselves for doing this and it will make them have a happier heart. Explain to them the wonderful thing that they have done. This will teach them to give joyfully and not expect anything in return. If each family taught Love in their home that would definitely be a good place to start making a difference in this world. I am still thinking about how I could use $100 to make this world a better place to live in and hopefully by the end of writing this article I will have came up with one. In the meantime I have a few suggestions of my own that could help the world. Smile - it will make others smile also. Help - open a door for someone, if someone drops a book pick it up for them. There are all sorts of ways that a person can help a little each day. Pray - for those that are so consumed with hate that their hearts will find love and compassion for others.
Give - there are millions of children all over the world that need a child sponsor, and there are children probably right in your own town. There are so many ways that you can give, just follow your heart and you will give the right way for the right reasons.
Volunteer - nothing is more important to God than using your time in helping others. Whether it be volunteering to look after your friend's children for a couple of hours while she has to go to the doctor, or volunteering at the nearest hospital, food kitchen or at a homeless shelter for example.
Read - read to your children, bible stories or children stories. This will teach them that there is another world that they can enjoy and this will help them greatly when it's time to go to school. You never know where it will lead.
Clean-up - if you see a trash can use it, pick up an old piece of paper that is on the ground and put it in the trash. If everyone picked up one piece of litter once a day can you imagine how clean the world would be?
Turn off the vehicle - if you are waiting in a car while your wife/husband is in the grocery store, don't leave your vehicle running (unless it's cold outside). Save the ozone layer a bit.
Plant a Tree - there are so many trees being cut down today, lets replace some of them.
Listen - to somebody that needs someone to talk to.
Give Hugs - they are free.
Those were just a few of the things that I can think of off the top of my head that would definitely make the world a better place to live in.
I still can not think of what I could do to help the world be a better place with $100, it is such an easy question but so hard to answer. How can $100 dollars help the world?
To tell you the truth I don't know. If I were allowed to have $100 for each person or organization I want to help, this would be an easier question to answer. But since I only get $100 to do the entire job, it baffles me.
As I took a coffee break from typing on my computer, I went outside and sat down on our back step, sipping away on my coffee and breathing that beautiful, clean, cold, Canadian winter fresh air and I looked up to the sky as I always do and God gave me an answer to the $100 question.
There is a passage in the Bible where Jesus fed a multitude of people with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish.
Matthew 14:15-21 (The New King James Version)
15 When it was evening, His disciples came to Him, saying, "This is a deserted place, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food."
16 But Jesus said to them "They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat."
17 And they said to Him, "We have here only five loaves and two fish."
18 He said, "Bring them here to Me."
19 Then He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to Heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitudes.
20 So they all ate and were filled, and they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments that remained.
21 Now those who had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
After remembering this passage it came to me what to do with the $100. I would give it to Jesus and let him tell my heart what to do with it. He fed thousands with a little, so I can only imagine what he could do with $100.
I wish I had of thought of this idea myself, but I guess God talks to us in different ways and at different times. Now that I have this idea planted into my heart, I am going to use my own funds and take exactly $100, use it the way my heart tells me to. I want to share with you everything that I have learned and where it directed me. I will post it in my comments area below when the time comes.
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