I
Will Not Be Silent
I arrived in Thailand on May 1st
and it is now May 25th.
I haven’t posted a single blog this month, which is out of my character –
and I couldn’t seem to figure out why? Why am I so silent?? Never in my life
have I lacked words to speak……But this month was different; I have seemed to
feel more comfortable defaulting to the safety of keeping myself overly busy. Today, God has shown me why I have been
so quiet – Fear of feeling the pain of this place; the fear of not being able
to revive the numbness in my soul; fear that I would truly begin to understand
what it feels like to be broken for God’s people; Fear that I might have to
deal with the things that I have witnessed…. No longer will
I be silent; The Lord has broken
me so that I can proclaim his truth to all of you. I will be sharing the truths and experiences I have
witnessed in this nation through a series of several blogs…. I pray that your lives are
touched in some way by these experiences and that light is cast into the dark
places of Thailand through sharing these stories.
For Zion’s sake I
will not keep silent,
For Jerusalem’s
sake I will not remain quiet,
Till her
righteousness shines out like the dawn,
Her salvation
like a blazing torch.
The nations will
see your righteousness
And all the kings
your glory.
Isaiah 62:1-2
Arise, shine, for
your light has come,
and the glory of
the Lord rises upon you.
See, the darkness
covers the earth
And thick
darkness over the peoples,
But the Lord
rises upon you.
Nations will come
to your light,
And kings to the
brightness of your dawn.
Isaiah 60:1-3
