Things have been hard for me lately. I have such a sense of urgency about what's going on in northern Uganda. I feel like, every MINUTE we don't do something, a child is being forced to kill, rape, and see atrocities. There are 40,000 parents in northern Uganda who do not know if their children are dead or alive because they have been kidnapped by the LRA. Could you imagine being a parent, tossing and turning every night fearing what the LRA might be doing to your little girl?
I toss and turn because it bothers me so much how little we care. For most of us, it's not that we do not have the time. It's how we choose to use our time. Honestly, it hurt me that so few of my friends came to support me at the screening, but they will go to anything entertaining at the drop of a hat. Should I take it personally? What do I do? All I know to do is to pray. I pray that the Lord will use me to cause people to ponder that which is beyond themselves. That each of us would fight for others' safety and joy with everything that is in us. I just keep thinking of Amos, and how he cried out to Israel:
21 "I hate, I despise your religious feasts; I cannot stand your assemblies.
22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them.
23 Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!"
Guys, we cannot go to a worship concert and abandon our brother's needs. God does not care what we sing if we don't do anything. Faith without deeds is dead. Is it real worship? Righteousness and justice are synonymous in the Bible. They are almost always listed together. We can never attain righteousness if we fail to be just, to love justice, to work for it.
Jesus requires nothing less than for us to pour ourselves out as living sacrifices, laid out on the altar to do whatever He requires. And if we are in communion Him, He is going to lead us to lay down our lives for others. He makes that pretty clear.
... when will I surrender my will to the Father's?
Yet even, still writing these things doesn't make me feel any better. When will I be able to reconcile these things? Does the Lord want me to? I pray that I am never content with the situation of the world.
The Rescue is the day after tomorrow. I wish I could communicate to people how vital this is. It's not something we do for fun. There are 3,000 children wanting someone to come Rescue them. They don't want to be there. We CAN, so we MUST.
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