The Hole in Our Gospel

"The Hole in our Gospel" by Richard Stearns.
Stearns, President of World Vision has written this powerful book. One chapter reads... "One Hundred Crashing Jetliners. Whenever a major jetliner crashes anywhere in the world, it inevitably sets off a worldwide media frenzy covering every aspect of the tragedy. I want you to imagine for a moment that you woke up this morning to the following headline: "One hundred jetliners crash, killing 26,5000." Think of the pandemonium this would create across the world as heads of state, Parliaments, and congress convened to grapple with the nature and causes of this tragedy. Think about the avalanche of media coverage that it would ignite around the globe as reporters shared he shocking news and tried to communicate its implications for the world. Air travel would no doubt grind to a halt as governments shut down the airlines and panicked air travelers canceled their trips. The national transportation safety board and FBI, CIA, and local law enforcement agencies and their international equivalents would mobilize investigations and dedicate whatever man-power was required to understand what happened and to prevent it from happening again. Now imagine that the very next day, 100 more planes crashed---------
and 100 more the next, and the next, and the next. It is unimaginable that something this terrible could ever happen. But it did--------and it does. It happened today, and it happened yesterday. But there was no media coverage. No heads of state, parliaments, or congresses stopped what they were doing to address the crisis, and no investigations were launched. Yet more than 26,500 children dies yesterday of preventable causes related to their poverty, and it will happen again today, tomorrow, and the day after that. Almost 10 MILLION children will be dead in the course of a year. So why does the crash of a single plane dominate the front pages of newspapers across the world while the equivalent of 100 planes filled with children crashing daily never reaches our ears? And even though we now have the awareness, the access, and the ability to stop it, why have we chosen not to? Perhaps one reason is that these kids who are dying are not our kids; they are somebody else's."

Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality.  At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need.  Then there will be equality, as it is written: "He who gathered much did not have too much, and he would gathered little did not have too little." 
2 Corinthians 8:13-15