To Whom Do You Turn

An ongoing television ad pleads for Americans to donate $25.00 to Russian Jewish Holocaust survivors who are purported to be in desperate need of food, medical supplies and care boxes. The spokesperson said, “They are turning to us because they have no place else to turn.” It makes me uncomfortable when America, rather than God, is looked to as the Provider. Jesus said, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life” (Matt 6:25-26 NIV)?