The recent trend of hash tagging #firstworldproblem got me thinking. The fact that we are aware that the bulk of our miseries arise out of non-life-threatening first world problems, yet continue to fret and obsess about them seems to be symptomatic of a much, much larger issue. That is, we're literally immune to this phenomena. We understand that our first world problems are, well, first world, and as a result fairly unimportant in the grand scheme of things. Yet we whine and moan like our life depended on them.
Our generation is growing up as one that is immune to the plight of third world problems - starvation, drought, torture, survival, death. And that is a scary thought. Aren't we called to be people after God's heart - His heart for the people? I'm afraid that we might lose that compassion.
