people of America respond I continually hear
these comments among many others crossing the lips of the people I am surrounded by….
“Why would God allow this?”
“Turn the channel it is too much for
me”
“Maybe God is punishing them”
“What can we do to help?”
“How will Haiti ever come out of this?”
To all of these questions I do not have
an answer, but I do know this…
Exactly 11 months ago I was entering
into my 2nd month on The World Race in the country of Haiti. My team was staying in an orphanage called
Canaan, not too far out of Port Au Prince.
Although my team and I were blessed beyond measure if you were to ask me
what my least favorite country was on the race, “Haiti” would be at the top of
my list. From being surrounded by great
people and being treated like a queen, there was really no explanation for the
feelings I had towards this country and quite frankly it wasn’t fair. I found myself asking God “Why do I feel this
way?” but I never felt like I got an answer until now….
The moment I heard there had been an
earthquake in Haiti my mind immediately started flooding with memories from my
time spent there, and the memories have not stopped. I have memories of precious children that I
loved dearly, I have memories of walking into a low funded smelly hospital and
basically having to walk around puddles of blood so that I could pray over some
sick person who was covered in flies,
the first thing I noticed upon arrival were the trucks covered in
witchcraft symbols, I remember watching out my window at the people with their
candles lit selling goods amidst the night life and chaos of Port Au Prince and
being so happy I was not in the back of the truck.
As I reminisce the reasons for my
feelings become so obvious to me. As
Americans we have good health systems, safety, money, churches on every
corner and much more. As Haitians, they do not have any of the
above…. Talk about being uncomfortable…
I was stepping into a sea of uncomfortableness and I did not know how to
handle it so I shut down. Now 11 months
later as I look at a country I never wanted to enter into again, My heart
breaks for them and I can’t help but want to be there. People the reality is that God did not call
us to be comfortable. As a matter of
fact everything He ask me to do is very uncomfortable, but that is what you are
called to by being a follower of Christ!
It is time for the church to rise up and claim their inheritance.. If you shut down, the enemy wins!. People are going to be hard to love, but LOVE
THEM ANYWAY! He may call you to a
foreign land where the spiritual climate is wack, suck it up… You may live in
the Bible belt, but that’s not the rest of the world. THIS WORLD NEEDS JESUS, BOTTOM LINE!! So lets get off our butts and go do something
about it instead of judging and instead of being scared of the unknown. God set YOU apart before you were born for a
specific purpose…. What would the
world look like if we all found our
purpose?
I am not God and I do not claim to have
all of the answers but did anyone ever stop to think that maybe, just maybe
stuff like this happens to wake up the church? Not Haiti…..
