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March 2nd, 2009 at 4:42 am
Living on less than $1 per day.
March 2nd, 2009 at 5:31 am
Defined as when a person cannot meet their basic needs for food, water, shelter, sanitation, and health care.The World Bank defines extreme poverty as living on less than $1.25 per day. Over 1.4 billion people can be defined by this.
March 2nd, 2009 at 6:27 am
The UN defines extreme poverty as living on less than $1 a day–which severely limits a person’s ability to provide for their basic needs, such as food, water, and shelter.
March 2nd, 2009 at 6:37 am
Extreme poverty is living on less than $1 a day.
March 2nd, 2009 at 7:27 am
These questions have been very educational for me…
March 2nd, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Less than $1 a day
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:41 am
Extreme poverty is living on less than £1 a day
March 3rd, 2009 at 5:58 am
Extreme poverty is not having adequate food, shelter and clothing…. and no hope of getting it in the future.
March 9th, 2009 at 10:11 am
The answer is:
Living on less than $1 a day. One in six people around the world lives in extreme poverty.
(Sources: unicef.org/mdg/poverty.html)
March 17th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
In the greater scheme of this, extreme poverty is really not having Christ.
Last week, I was in Medellin, Columbia in one of the projects, visiting one of my children and two of the children, that I had just found sponsors for.
The pastor gave a small devotional, sharing how much he appreciated the visit and how I was taking care of the poor. I felt kind of funny there, because I felt like I was visiting the rich. Not that it escaped me that I was in the midst of a very poor slum with gangs and drugs, but these children and their families were so dependent on God and Christ, that I felt like I was really the poor visiting the rich. Being dependent on God was to me a huge part of being very rich.
Kees
April 15th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
@Kees Boer – I’m sure if they really were rich, they wouldn’t be very dependent on god. I’m betting they wouldn’t even care.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Hi, Jason, that’s actually not so much my point. Rich people can depend on God. They have to make more of a choice to do so.
What I’m actually saying is that what we consider the “poor” in those countries are really the rich, because they are rich with dependence on God.
See, in reality, material possessions here on earth are very temporal. We have an eternity in front of us. Our lives here on earth are just like an entrance into eternity. Some people have been given a nice entrance, some a not so nice entrance. What we do with our entrance has an effect on the rest of eternity.
The most important thing is to realize that none of us deserve to enter heaven. We have all broken God’s laws and if it were dependent upon our performance here on earth, we would all end up seperated from God in a place called hell. To go to heaven, we must have the righteousness of God or must be perfect. Rev. 21:27 says that even someone, who lies can not enter heaven. So, no matter what a person does, they can never enter heaven. You can sponsor 500 children, which would be a good thing to do, but it will never get you to heaven.
God saw that situation and He sent His Son, Jesus to die on the cross to pay for our sins. He was our substitute. In other words, Jesus took all of the blame of my sins on Himself and He paid for them on the cross, when He died. Then 3 days later, He rose from the dead, proving that your and my sins have been paid for.
Now, all He asks us to do to go to heaven, is to simply put our trust in what He did on the cross and all of our sins are forgiven.
John 3:16 is a famous passage. It sums it up nicely: “For God so loved the world (that’s you and I), that He gave His only begotten Son (that’s Jesus Christ), that whoever believes (That means to trust or to rely upon) should not perish (spend eternity away from God), but have eternal life.
If you have never placed your trust in Christ, you can do that right there where you are sitting. Simply rely upon what Jesus did for you on the cross. Some people do this by saying a prayer to God, like this (though saying a prayer is not necessary) “God I know I’m a sinner, but I believe that Jesus came to earth and die on the cross for my sins and I want to place my trust in Jesus as the One, Who paid for my sins. Thank you for dying for me. Amen.”
If you just placed your trust in Christ, then you can know on the basis of God’s Word, the Bible that you have eternal life. I John 5:13 says: “These things have I written to you that believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may KNOW that you have eternal life.”
Now, here on earth we can continue this trusting relationship for other things too. And that’s why many poor people are really rich. Because if they placed their trust in what Jesus did for them on the cross, they are going to heaven and their eternity is secure. I told a Compassion child not too long ago that the biggest mansion here on earth is a dump compared to what they will get when they get to heaven. (This Compassion child had placed his trust on Jesus to save him)
Kees