Rich Young Ruler

Poverty is so hard to see when it’s only on your TV and twenty miles across town.
Where we’re all living so good that we moved out of Jesus’ neighborhood
where he’s hungry and not feeling so good from going through our trash.
He says, "More than just your cash and coin, I want your time, I want your voice. I want the things you just can’t give me."

So what must we do? Here in the west we want to follow you.
We speak the language and we keep all the rules--even a few we made up...
"Come on and follow me, but sell your house, sell your SUV.
Sell your stocks, sell your security, and give it to the poor."
What is this? Hey, what’s the deal?
I don’t sleep around, and I don’t steal.
"I want the things you just can’t give me."

"Because what you do to the least of these, my brothers, you have done it to me
because I want the things you just can’t give me."

-Derek Webb-

(in response to my thoughts below)