Haiti

Photography courtesy of MSNBC

Friends flew into Haiti to spend two weeks serving the people there. God did more than the team thought. Reminds me of that verse that talks about how God can do more than we can ask or think. Forty eight hours after they fly out of the island, an earthquake occurs. The Lord's timing and grace to have the team leave before the quake, I am very thankful for. The Lord is soverign and in control of everything and for His reasons He did not want the team to be there. However, for the Haitians and the people who are there in that country they're experiencing great difficulties right now. A country that is already devestatingly poor. A country with no building codes is lethal on a faultline when an earthquake occurs. Concrete crumbling down makes for people trapped under rock crying until some unlikely person rescues them or until there last heart beat quiets their cry. I have seen God use difficult times bring me to Himself and I have seen Him do that in the life of others. To a people who are very poor and now may have serious injuries or loved ones gone in front of their eyes, is an experience no one created in the image of God wants to experience. I pray that the gospel will spread. I pray that the gospel will be shared. I pray that people will cling to Jesus the true hope. I hear news of churches walking through the streets singing and ministering to the people doing prayer walks, and the people responding with wanting to seek a higher power. Apparently there are the most amount of missionaries, or at least close to the most, in Haiti and may they glorify the Lord through this difficult time. Soli Deo Gloria!