Disturbed?

A lot of us are disturbed in one way or the other. And we will do everything to prevent it. We really hate feeling bad!

But being disturbed can also be a good thing, because it can lead us to action. There are a lot of people who became great men and women because they got disturbed.

Bob Pierce the founder of World Vision (http://worldvision.org) started his foundation because he got disturbed on what happened to a little Chinese girl named White Jade in China. Her father had beaten her and kicked her out of the house because she had visited the local mission school Bob gave. The school could not afford to take her in. Dr. Pierce gave the school principal his last five dollars, and promised to send more each month to help support the young girl. And now after 60 years they are sponsoring millions of kids around the world.

I think we modern people are disturbed for the wrong reasons. We are disturbed because we are dateless on a Friday night and not disturbed because there are people dying of hunger all over the world.

In our selfish culture now, I think being disturbed can do us some good. We are like a sleepy driver heading for a cliff and we don’t know it. We need someone to blow the horn and wake us up. A life of selfishness is a life heading for the cliff. A selfish life is life doomed for misery.

We are created for self-giving love and not self-absorption.

So being disturbed is not such a bad thing after all.