I was going to write a post updating my current World Race status but this one just kind of happened.
When I think about all the injustice going on in the world I just want to scream. Like scream and shout and cry and flip tables over. It does not make any sense to me how a grown “man”, can purchase a child and have sex with them for a night or how someone can abandon their child or any of the other crap that goes on in the world.
But what bothers me a little bit more is the lack of people doing anything about it.
The lack of so-called “Christians” doing something about all this injustice.
How can you have the answer to the all worlds problems and keep it to yourself.
When your non-believing friend is depressed, the answer is Jesus.
When a women in Africa has a baby as a result of rape and hates the baby and themselves, the answer is Jesus.
When a child is forced into having sex with people for money, the answer is Jesus.
When your friend is addicted to drugs/alcohol, the answer is Jesus.
The answer to all the hurt and brokenness in this crazy, messy world we live in, is Jesus.
THAT'S IT, PEOPLE THE ANSWER WE'VE ALL BEEN SEARCHING FOR!!
Jesus came to clean up our ugly messes, because we for damn sure cannot clean them up ourselves.
Jesus came to put the broken pieces back together.
Jesus came for the prostitute just as much as He came for the soccer mom who attends church regularly and does everything right in the eyes of the world.
And here's a controversial but true statement, Jesus came for those who are gay, JUST AS MUCH as He came for those who are strait.
Jesus came and took away our burden and our shame. He loves us no matter what. He gives us life.
But I didn't always think like this, but then I started reading my Bible and God started revealing things to me. My freshman year at Liberty, God really rocked my world when I first started to realize I could do something about that little girl lost an confused at a brothel in Thailand, or that boy who grew up way to fast and wanders the streets of Ethiopia selling gum to buy bread.
In Romans, Paul writes, “Everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Simple enough right? Call on Jesus and you're saved. Bam. But then Paul continues on, this was the part I hadn't heard before, “How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how how are they to hear without someone preaching?”
That's when it hit me, I was like “I have to go, I have to tell them!” When I read that verse for the first time 2 years ago I knew my life would never be the same.
The rest of the passage says “And how will they preach unless they are sent.” That's where we all come to play, as a church, as a body of believers, it's all of our responsibility to send and be sent.
