“Sometimes I would like to ask God why He allows poverty, suffering, and injustice when He could do something about it.”
“Well, why don’t you ask Him?” “Because I’m afraid He would ask me the same question.”
-The Hole in Our Gospel, by Richard Stearns, President, World Vision U.S. It is really profound when you consider the implications. God has chosen to work through us - His body, the church. It appears God is not addressing the serious issues of the world only to the degree that we are not fulfilling His call. God’s heart breaks for the suffering - He wants it to break through ours. God’s hand’s yearn to reach out and touch, but he does it through ours. We are His hands and feet.
God is doing something about poverty and injustice - we are what God is doing - changing our harden hearts into His heart of love. He is teaching us to love a fallen, broken world. He is teaching us the joy of sacrificing ourselves for others.
God is addressing poverty, suffering, and injustice.... that is if we answer the call to be about our Father’s business. Every day is a chance to change the world we see in front of us. You are Christ’s ambassador to the hurting world around you.
“Now I rejoice in what was suffered for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions, for the sake of His body, the church.” -Colossians 1:24
Lord, I see the cross,
the place of suffering.
Where grace flows red and guilt erased
teaches me to join,
the pain of sacrifice.
My life, my plans, laid down for Yours,
the joy of sacrifice-
till my life spills love like Yours.
Praying for all the Jesus-followers helping in Joplin after the tornado. Thanks for being Christ to the hurting!
In Christ
Scott
