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Lack! Can anyone who has ever gotten what they wanted know what it means to lack? I don't think so. How can anyone who gets all that they have ever needed explain what lack means? Indeed, can someone who gets half of what they need also say they know lack? Perhaps, one begins to grasp the real meaning of lack when one struggles really hard to get the least of things on their list of preference. Lack and hunger are cousins, the former always dragging the latter wherever he chooses to go.
Today being Sunday, If you are wearing a three piece suit or a complete African traditional attire, and you look naturally astonishing in your apparel, you cannot know what lack entails. Nor can you have a real feel of lack if you've got good shirts and pairs of trousers. In fact, if you can change your dress from one into another within a limited number then you do not really know lack. A person begins to know what lack really feels like if apart from the tattered clothes on his body, he does not have any other to change into. So no matter the atmospheric condition it's the same clothes. All day, all night, hot or cold.
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Face it, how can anyone who has never slept outside appreciate the full, harsh import of homelessness? Yet that is what real lack feels like. He who can afford to lay quietly under the roof of a rented flat or room without having the landlord eject him cannot honestly claim to be a pauper. The real man in lack has no roof over his head, and this is why you find him on the streets.
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It doesn't end there, a poor man feels the world is full of hopelessness. Nobody listens attentively when he tries to make a point. Nobody accepts that his opinion carries weight. So in most cases he keeps to himself accepting he has neither wisdom nor opinion.
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The pauper's lack rubs off on his children who are subjected to both hunger of the body and mind. The pauper has no money to take his children to school, thank God for countries like Nigeria where education is free which the children can be enrolled, at that, the children still face the uphill of hunger of the body which impedes the proper activation of the mind. The children's heart become a rocky soil where the teacher's seed may not easily germinate.
That's not all, weakened by lack of food to eat, struggling against cold and harsh weather conditions, feeding on poor water and poor food the paupers becomes vulnerable to diseases. With this I conclude; poverty is truly a disease that shortens life.
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The Bible says;
Proverbs 22:9 “Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.”
Matthew 19:21” Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Proverbs 28:27 “Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.”
As much as we can, let us all help those in need. Who knows, You may be saving someone's precious life.
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