Read my post entitled "Cylcing through a Chaotic World" for the beginning of this journey. That will frame the conversation for today.
What do you do when you find you heart continually breaking because of something that is happening in our world?
How do you handle hopelessness--the sense that there is nothing that can be done?
Can love really speak an international, multi-"religious" language?
I am faced with an opportunity to go to Pakistan in the next couple of weeks. The project would be to hike to the mountain villages, find people who are trapped and build shelters for them. They might survive the winter.
Pakistan is a closed country to foreigners, yet they are throwing open their boarders because they can't not. Is it possible that Jesus-followers could go into the heart of the Muslim world--in the neighborhood of where Sept. 11, 2oo1 was likely planned--and love people?
Pray for me--it's decision time.
3 comments:
hit me with an email and more details on this new possibility....praying with you my brother.
Jer---Your heart to follow Christ should not get in the way. You will be a great warrior for Christ in those mountains. Many blessings and prayers.
Jacob,
I must say that I have been provoked since reading your comment. Do you think that Jesus really loved with a purpose-less love?
Could it be that Jesus--God made man--did every single thing that he did intentionally so that the world might know Him and step into His rhythm? Maybe we haven't figured out how to do that yet, and thus have polluted that kind of love. Mysteriously, He did things in such a way that all people felt loved by him.
Oh to love in that way!
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