Walking the streets of Ho Chi Minh I saw brokenness in a way I’ve never seen it before. Countless chairs lined the streets filled with tourists and locals alike searching for answers. Drunkenness, promiscuity, and drugs run rampant here – but more than that I saw brokenness in the eyes of those around me. I saw a longing for more. A longing for love.
People so helplessly looking for answers in the all the wrong places. I saw women being sold, hopelessness and shame in their eyes and men looking for love in the arms of these women. I saw brokenness in the eyes of tourists looking for another drunken night to help them find momentary escape.
And yet, in all this darkness I saw Light. I saw the love of a Shepherd for His lost sheep. My heart longed for these people to see the Truth. Knowing that despite the darkness that seemed to wage war all day long, the Light was fighting back ferociously with a love that is so pure, true and selfless that nothing compares. This love is given freely, and is only found in the heart of a Father who so desperately wants to embrace His children.
As I looked into the faces of the tourists and locals I couldn’t help but be thankful that I had been saved from the darkness. That a loving Father looked down on me, extended His loving hands, and beckoned me to run full force into His loving arms. That when I fall, He continues to pick me up, bandage my wounds and spurs me onward. Now, in Nha Trang, the darkness isn’t as evident, but we are still at war, a war that is only going to be won with love. My goal isn’t to convince anybody of anything; my goal is to simply love on people and allow a Father’s love to transform them. It’s this love that compels me to continue waging war daily.
Ho Chi Minh both broke my heart and made me more hopeful than I could have ever imagined. I spent 4 short days there, walking the streets and just hanging out. These people in Ho Chi Minh, just like those around the world are waiting; they are longing for love and searching for something more. We have the answer; we have the love a Father, a love that casts out all darkness. Let’s join together and fight this battle because though the war is already won, the battle rages on.
** Please be praying for the X squad teams who are in Ho Chi Minh city. That they would be a shining light piercing the darkness all around them. That as they go out and wage war that they would be surrounded and protected from any enemy attacks, and that they would stand STRONG & united by our Father’s love.**
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