It is so easy to forget that God never told us to stop dreaming.
Looking at the persistence of the structural, political, and human wreckage in Haiti, it is so easy to become discouraged. Thinking on the enormity of the challenges yet to be overcome can be paralyzing. When it seems like the entire neighborhood shows up to fill plastic buckets with water gushing from a broken pipe in the street, it is an understatement to say that they are in need.
Through all this, God says, “Believe.” He does not ask, “Can you believe?” He asks, “Will you believe?” Faith, possible only through the grace of God, is not a passing, whimsical feeling we produce within ourselves. No, it is “the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1, ESV). It is a choice, made in response to and in agreement with the truth God has spoken to us.
And make no mistake; His Kingdom is advancing.
Faith leads to action. Today a shipment of rice came to Pastor Wilson’s house; a few guys and I unloaded it. Its destination is Lartigue, an isolated town in the mountains of Haiti where Eglise Communion de la Manne Evangelique operates a school. I’ll be traveling there with Pastor on Monday to deliver the rice and many other essential supplies to this town, which was devastated by the recent hurricane.
Another example, more close to home: the church family at Christian Life Center, in Williamsburg, Virginia, got together, sold Christmas trees and homemade ornaments, hosted an event representing local vendors where community members could do their Christmas shopping, and gave generously, all to raise the $15,000 necessary to provide a generator for the new Children’s Home. To literally provide light to the 21 amazing kids and the volunteers who tirelessly serve them.
We can look at the seemingly insurmountable obstacles in our path and freeze...or we can choose to do something. Thank you all for believing.
- Chris Rowekamp
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