I've been thinking about rights a lot lately. I am a human child. In my opinion every human child should have the right to safety and basic necessities...um education and things of that sort. Adults is a different story. They have to provide for themselves and their families unless they're not able for some reason that they can't do anything about, like health.

However I'm still trying to figure out what rights people have no matter who they are and what people deserve good and bad. I mean here's an example of what goes through my head... So let's try to find a basic right that everyone has, no strings attached. I'm sure every human has the right to life... but what if they've killed someone, do things change then? So if I can't even find out one basic right of everyone...this whole figuring out what people have a right to is going to be harder than I thought.

But there's a difference between what people have a right to and what they deserve. For instance, does every human have the right to a nice warm bed and 3 meals a day even if they're a bad person? God gives everyone their rights indirectly...but then it gets complicated when one infringes on another's rights. Because people can't always catch that...

I've just been thinking since I saw the Invisible Children video again, why are these people in Africa starving and suffering yet here in America we(and I say we because I'm included and I'm not preaching just being curious) act like we have some right to be comfortable and entertained all the time like we're some type of kings, when really, we're all sinners. So we're all sinners (starving or luxuriated) and the punishment of sin is death. Then we all deserve death technically but Christ came and died for us so that we can be saved...so I'm back to square one, what are our rights or do we even have any. Cause if we don't, then people talk about them an awful lot and people have some pretty wrong mindsets. But if we do and we have the right to be saved, first of all why? and second of all if we accept Christ do we then deserve to be saved? Or is it just something we receive? the Bible says "the gift of salvation" so if that's how it works we must not have any rights and everything we receive is a gift, that is something given to us that we really have no obligation to have. and if that's the case shouldn't we have a different perspective on things?

Most of this comes to mind because I have a hard time telling myself that I deserve things or even more, saying it out loud. But yeah, I'd like some opinions while I'm trying to form my own. :]


Everyone have a good week.