It is a Lot
Attached to a $25 donation given to Urban Bible Outreach this past month was a note saying, “I know it’s not a lot, but. . .”. I smiled. My face beams when someone who catches the vision and heart of our ministry wants to do more and yet feels like their contribution may not make a difference. This donor felt that her donation was not a lot.
I am here to tell you, it is a lot!
$25 can buy 5 children a storybook Bible, full of colorful pictures, stories come to life, and the love of their Creator and Heavenly Dad.
$25 can buy 9 Spanish Bibles for 9 Spanish-speaking people who long for the comfort of God’s Word but only know a couple of verses in broken English that they’ve heard along the way.
$25 can buy 125 tracts to hand out to pregnant girls in crisis over an unplanned pregnancy or 3 large print Bibles for the homeless man whose eyesight might be failing.
$25 can buy many people HOPE through a RISEN SAVIOR, the kind of hope that “does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out” (Romans 5:5).
What this $25 does is give all these people a good chance at intimacy with a Savior who is seeking them out, looking for them under the rubble of their life and the pain of their regret. It gives them a chance to accept the gift of abundant Life that Jesus offers them but they’ve been in too much despair to see. “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost” (Luke 19:10). Jesus says He came “that they may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10). He is “not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9).
I’m reminded of that very familiar story passed down about a boy on the beach throwing sand dollars one by one back into the ocean, and how no matter how much work it took or how futile his efforts appeared to others, he knew without a doubt that it made a different to even just one sand dollar.
That is the beauty of the work we do here at Urban Bible Outreach. Even one life changed by God’s beautiful and bountiful grace for all of eternity is A LOT!
Thank you for giving, for caring, and for sharing what God has given you so that others might also know “the hope of His calling, . . .the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and . . . the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe” (Ephesians 1:18-19).