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Does
Anyone Care?
In Yagoona, Australia, a
suburb of Sydney, a man lay dead in his apartment for a whole year before
his body was discovered. The
body of Jorge Chambe, 64, was found on Tuesday in his single bedroom,
government-owned flat when police and firefighters broke in, after
concerns about his welfare were finally raised on Monday by a worried
neighbor.
News reports in the area
stated that some neighbors at the apartment complex where Chambe lived
described him as “a quiet man who was friendly but who kept mostly to
himself.”
An overflowing mailbox
was the only clue that anyone had noticed that indicated something was
wrong. Chambe’s rent was
paid automatically by direct debit from his bank account that was fed by
his federal government welfare payments.
Bank records supplied part of the evidence that Chambe had been
dead for about a year.
New South Wales state
Housing Minister Matt Brown asked a sobering question on the Macquarie
Radio network on Thursday: "How
can it happen that a person can die in such a lonely way and no one
know?" *
Chambe’s lonely demise
and the plague of loneliness in our world today cause us to wonder: “Does
anyone care?”
The answer from heaven
is a resounding “Yes! ”
God
cares.
He
knows… every detail about our lives
– even the exact number of hairs on our heads.
Not even ONE sparrow which falls to the ground escapes His notice.
And YOU are of far greater value (Matthew 10:29-31).
He
cares… He cared so much for us that
He gave His Son, Jesus, to die on the cross for our sins so that we might live
eternally with Him (1
Thessalonians 5:10).
Through Jesus we can
be reconciled to God (Romans 5:6-10) by believing
in Jesus (Acts 16:30-31), turning from our sins in repentance
(Acts 17:30-31), confessing
Him before men (Romans 10:9-10), and
being baptized
(immersed) for the forgiveness of our
sins (Acts 2:38). He has
promised that He will dwell with us and that we can dwell with Him for an
eternity as long as we faithfully obey His will (Revelation 3:20;
1 John 1:7).
There IS Someone who
cares... AND He calls His
people to care for others (Matthew 25:31-46).
Jesus died ALONE on
the cross so that we wouldn’t have to be ALONE anymore.
Won’t
YOU submit your life to Him?
David
A. Sargent,
Minister
Church
of Christ at Creekwood
1901
Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
*
Information gleaned from Associated Press article: “Man’s Death Goes
Unnoticed in Sydney” from The News
& Observer -- http://www.newsobserver.com/2197/story/871917.html
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