I have been in Mae Sot, Thailand the past three weeks. My team and I have been working with Life Impact International. This was a manual labor month. It was no big deal, if you consider working outside in summertime 100 degree heat with humidity like you’re in the Everglades no. big. deal. We raked leaves, broke down branches for the wood chipper, we painted water tanks, and helped harvest coconuts. This was a physically demanding month. We worked diligently and persevered through the exhaustion. But while working with Life Impact, an organization that focuses on saving the children in or on the brink of slavery, we had the opportunity to listen to the some of the most heartfelt worship I’ve ever witnessed. On Friday nights, all of the children that live with Life Impact in their various housing situations come to one area on their land and gather together to worship the God that has saved them from their earthly situations but also the God that has saved their soul. These kids do not praise Life Impact, they do not lift up the name of Life Impact, they lift up the name of Jesus Christ. I can not accurately describe to you the sound or the passion in their voices. I can only imagine that it will be replicated on an immeasurably larger scale in heaven in the presence of our King. Physical exhaustion just doesn’t seem to matter much in those moments.
This is a short blog. So once you are finished reading this, I ask you only to do one thing: Pray to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ; Pray for Thailand. Pray that God would continue a work here. That in a country that is currently unstable politically, and with so much human trafficking, God would show up. That He would reveal himself to the people here that are predominantly Buddhist. So many are spiritually dead, so pray for life.
May everything we do be for the glory of God.
