had a brutal mass genocide in the late 1970s by the Khmer Rouge. More than 2 million people were massacred.
Right before I came on The World Race I met a woman while
waiting for a friend who was trying on some clothes at a department store.
She was a Cambodian and out of nowhere she went into graphic
detail about what happened to her and her family when then Khmer Rouge were
taking families hostage. She escaped and
now was raising her family in California.
Being here in Cambodia and now remembering that story and
seeing The Killing Fields (the place where the Khmer Rouge took the Cambodian people to be killed) has struck (yet again) at my heart the brutality that
is out there in the world.
Why did so many people
die?
stopped sooner?
After witnessing these burial grounds and camps I can’t stop
thinking about the theme of love vs. power.
God is not a God of manipulative control. He doesn’t use His
power to you make you love Him. He is a good God who loves you regardless, but
it’s your choice if you want to follow Him.
He is one that desires to know you, but only you can make
that decision to turn to Him.
Doesn’t mean you have to be perfect. Doesn’t mean you have to have it all
together. He would rather you be broken
and your heart open.
After witnessing so many different countries, playing with
kids who don’t have much, seeing The Killing Fields and so many other things, I
know Jesus is the one who brings ultimate joy,
peace, and love.
I don’t want to go
back to my wavering attitude about who God is.
I can now tell you that God really does redeem, heal, and love. And wants us to pursue Him no matter how perfect or imperfect you think
your life is.
God is restoring Cambodia from the controlling power of
evil. He’s restoring America.
He’s renewing and restoring so many communities around the
world and so many people.
It’s a beautiful thing to see people rising up
