Something's awfully wrong
I hate the news.How many plane crashes have there been in August alone? One in Greece, one in Malta, one in Venezuela, one in Toronto, one in Afghanistan, one in Tunisia, and the helicopter crash that killed Sudan's peace-bringing VP John Garang. And I'm sure so many more incidents that go unreported, yet many have died and many are grieving.
And then there's the Middle East peace crisis, the forced evacuation of Jewish settlers from their homes in the Palestinian-majority Gaza Strip. The fighting between Muslims and Jews and Christians. The militants and terrorists who have no regard for peace and justice.
And the AIDS pandemic, devastating lives in Africa and Asia especially, but also around the world.
And famine in Niger and across the hunger belt of Africa.
And poverty that leads to desperate choices or hopelessness.
And the injustice of human trafficking, primarily for the "booming" sex trade. The enslavement of women and children for exploitation.
And tsunamis and monsoons and hurricanes and floods, and locusts and drought and a changing global climate.
And consumerism and materialism.
And indifference and selfishness.
It's all too much for me. For I know the answer is only found in Christ and His coming Kingdom, but things seem to be getting worse, and it causes my heart to ache more and more. I recall a book I read in a class my senior year at CU, "Not the Way It's Supposed to Be" by Cornelius Plantinga.
In any case, these things weigh on my heart day after day, sometimes making me want to weep at the state of this world, weep that so many don't believe or even know the Truth, and weep in frustration that so many so-called "Christians" right here in blessed-ol-America don't really believe the Truth and live it. What a force we could be for Christ in the world, with the resources and information and wealth God has for-some-reason given us. God help us hear Your call to action before it's too late.
posted by FaithChristine @ 14:50
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