Oprah Said So

There is a lot out there right now about Oprah. Between her "Big Give" on TV and "Oprah's Church" making it's way around the internet, I hear her name almost daily. I love the idea of the Big Give and paying it forward but every time I see one of those episodes, it makes me a little sad. What's sad about people giving to help others? It's sad that so many people have caught onto this, it seems, simply because Oprah "said so". I'm sure that once people do begin giving, the good feeling it gives encourages them to continue, but it took Oprah to get it started.

It's sad because the Body of Christ has been called to "care for the widows and orphans" and others who are in need, and I don't know that we are doing a very good job. I know for me, it is so much easier to keep to my comfortable world than talk to the woman on the side of the road asking for money to help pay her rent. Things like that can get messy and involved and I don't like getting messy. This verse comes to mind: "Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me." Matthew 25:40 This should be my motivation, NOT Oprah! Lord, please change my heart. Open my eyes so that I see people as you see them and then move me to action.