Finding Joy In The Suffering

What is joy? Joy is a fruit of the spirit. Unlike happiness joy has eternal value. Happiness is a temporary thing, but joy is a gift from God!

It seems impossible to be joyful when you don't know when your next meal will come from, and your stomach feels like it's curling up into knots from starvation. When you go to the Operation Christmas Child workers and beg to have the giant box that they ship the shoe boxes in so you can have a little more shelter from the wind (true story). When your water source doubles up as your sewage disposal, and your children are lying in bed dying and there is nothing you can do about it.

That should paint you a picture of a horrible life that is hopeless, and full of sorrow. For some that may be true, but some have found the eternal joy of Jesus Christ! Thanks to Compassion International and other christian organizations working to help bring third-world countries out of poverty, they've been shown the truth of God's word, and have been given Bibles, and other resources.

You can help these people! You can be the one who turns their life around. Why can't you sacrifice $1 every day to help people who have nothing out of poverty?

Sponsor a child today!