Behind a poster board decrying human rights abuses on earth, I realized something. Many Christians don’t care. We fixate on the pursuit of worldly things: a good job, more money, and more stuff-always more stuff. All the while, God is whispering above the cacophonous city noise: “Am I and my work not enough for you?” We would do well to slow down and listen.

All too often we see someone hurting, count the cost of self-sacrifice, never clothe the naked and emerge thinking we still have a pretty good handle on life. Jesus Christ had a better one.

I represented the International Justice Mission (IJM) in the Campus Center last Friday, and one person showed interest; one out of the thousands who shuffle by more concerned with making A’s than looking out for the fatherless. I have been one of those thousands. Something may distract me today, and I may join those thousands again. It’s too easy. This semester is the hardest of my life, but I will pray and try to be about God’s business. His work hurts…pride. But through me God is glorified and He knows my heart-our hearts.

I’m not preaching to tell how great IJM (or any group on campus for that matter) is, but to us whose sole existence lies in day-to-day problems. My advice is this: work through those day-to-day problems, but live them in Christ. Also, God forbid some problems might even be worse than yours. Find them; help those people. Do we who can afford a college education in the United States of America really have serious problems? Some countries have forced prostitution or enslaved workers or both. I once heard six of the world’s richest men could wipe out poverty on earth. Shame on us.

If we really cared about what God cares about, we would give unceasingly and be focused on God’s mind. This unending, pedestrian Chapel debate wouldn’t matter. We need to grow up.

Jonathan Grubbs, senior electronic media major from Tullahoma, Tenn.