Do We Care Enough?

This most recent catastrophe in Myanmar (which used to be Burma) shows me a couple of things.

1. That I don’t care enough about people in other places. I mean 22,000 dead and that’s probably just the beginning of the count. And it didn’t really hardly bother me. When something happens in “my” country, it hits home. I might know someone affected, I may have been to that place. But do you realize how absolutely wiped out this country is? Can you imagine if a tornado wiped out 20-30,000 people in Illinois? And it’s worse there because they don’t have the resources to deal with it. We need to pray for them. These are every bit as much God’s children as we are. I just don’t feel it enough.

2. We never know when the end is coming. We should be ready. And I don’t mean stockpiling water and peanut butter. I mean ready to head over to the other side.

3. It’s not God’s fault. God could have stopped it, but he didn’t. I don’t know why. I don’t know why he isn’t stopping the cyclone in your life either. I don’t know why – about anything. That’s what I know. But I have to keep coming back to the fact that God did not cause sin to be in our world. He allowed it as a choice and we took it. Adam and Eve brought it. You don’t read any accounts of bad weather in the Garden of Eden do you? “Adam was walking with God and all of the sudden a hail storm came up and God went – “whoa, where did that come from?” NO. Didn’t happen. As a matter of fact, Jesus slept through a storm one time. He was so not bothered by it that he just slept, and when they woke him up he went “boo” and the storm stopped. Why didn’t God go “boo” to the cyclone? I do not know. I can’t help but think that when God let’s something like this happen – it should at least serve as a wakeup call to all of us that this world is not the paradise we think it is. And we should all be anxious for the day when we get to head on home.

I do want to ask you to pray for these people affected.

I’m also including two links to two different relief organizations that I respect and have worked with. Let’s do our part to reach out in prayer and in aide. And let’s remember that one way or another, we are all leaving here soon.

International Disaster Emergency Service

Samaritan's Purse

Tim

Comments

[Paula]

you are so right. on all 3 counts. and on number 1 especially, when I see stuff like this and I'm watching it on TV and maybe even....EATING DINNER (!) and thinking how awful it all is and why am I so....detached...and also thinking well if something catastrophic like that happens here and I am on TV someday...isn't it (not) comforting to know that maybe somewhere over on the other side of the world ther will be someone doing the very same thing.

I don't get it either. But I know one day, on the other side of Eternity it will all make Perfect sense.

so I am going to Pray and try to help a little...and humbly Pray for a better heart while I'm at it.

thanks for the reminder by making it real. :)