Poverty, Disease and the Church

I read this article today in Relevant Magazine entitled Silencing the Roar, by Tom Davis. He talks the devils role and our role in 3rd world poverty. A couple pieces struck me and I thought I'd share them:
......It reminds of the words of 1 Peter 5:8: "Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour". It's interesting that the devil is described as a roaring lion. Have you ever seen lions hunt their prey? They lie in wait, silent. Any noise would set the prey running. Lions don't roar when they hunt - they roar to keep other animals away. The only time a lion would roar before eating its prey is if their kill was certain.

The devil is roaring throughout Africa. His kill is certain. Why? Perhaps because we are not standing between the lion and its prey. To quote Mother Teresa:

When a a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

The Devil mocks the Church... roaring over the 50 million people he is devouring by way of AIDS. He gloats over the 143 million orphans and stands atop a mountain of 33,000 children each day who will die from preventable issues like malaria and malnutrition. Satan knows that if the church took poverty as seriously as we take abortion, we could wipe it out in a generation. The issue isn't whether or not we can do it, but whether or not we will have the will to act.