I am one of out 312,742,000 out of 6,980,000,000 so I am definitely not part of the majority. I have known this my whole life, but I always lose sight of this. I remember when I was younger my parents would talk to me about how people in America were a small percentage of the world population. They told me that I should be thankful for the blessings I have. I also learned about this through out my school years – how Americans lived in a highly developed country while most of the world lives in less developed countries. I thought I always understood this…that I should be thankful that I was blessed.

I don’t think I will ever clearly understand the gravity to which how I am not the majority. I have seen these things and participated with them but still can’t comprehend how most people know these things as a part of their everyday lives – most people put toilet paper in a waste bin rather than down the toilet, most homes have tin or earthenware as roofs rather than shingles, most people eat with their hands rather than silverware, most children run around with lice infested heads instead of getting quarantined when they have it, most families share one room instead of parents and children having separate rooms, most people don’t have heating or air conditioning, most people shouldn’t drink from their nearest water source…the list could go on and on.

My thoughts have been whirling around this idea since my team and I watched the movie, Furious Love. During one part of the movie, the narrator of the documentary says something about how the people outside of America are not surprised when they hear how “we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places” (Eph. 6:12). They are not shocked at the words, spiritual warfare, which I never heard used until my freshmen year of college. It is not a shock or seen as charismatic because most of the world knows this exists due to experience. Most people know there is so called black magic since they believe in it themselves or know people that do so.

So I pray that I may not only know that I am a minority but that God takes this to my heart. I don't want to brush it away but actually have God burden me and others for this.