100 People

I preached last Sunday on "Too Much" the theme of the message was the danger of having too much and how it can harm our spiritual lives. The outline is elsewhere in my blog and you can listen to the sermon on our church web site: www.faithbaptistcovington.net.

One of the men in the congregation last Sunday sent me the following, I thought it was pretty neat. See what you think.

If earth's population was shrunk into a village of just 100 people with all human ratios existing in the world still remaining...what would this tiny, diverse village look like? That's exactly what Phillip M. Harter, a medical doctor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, attempted to figure out. This is what he found:

The following is an anonymous interpretation:

Think of it this way. If you live in a good home, have plenty to eat and can read, you are a member of a very select group. And if you have a good house, food, can read, and have a computer, you are among the very elite.

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more fortunate than the million who will not survive the week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you can attend church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death, you are fortunate, more than 3 billion people in the world cannot.

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead, and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

If your parents are still alive and still married, you are a very rare, even in the US .

If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.

If you can hold someone's hand, hug them or even touch their shoulder, you are blessed because you can offer a healing touch.

If you read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you and furthermore, you are more blessed than over 2 billion people in the world that cannot read at all.

Have a great day, count your blessings, and pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are!