It is not my job to save the world.
I keep telling myself this as I sit in my office chair trying to discover new and exciting ways to spin. (On a side note: it really is a fun chair). You see I am easily worked up - poverty, crime, injustice, Bob Rae becoming a Liberal...
I often lay awake at night upset because I have luxury of both a blanket and a pillow. Am I a petulant, ungrateful child ... Or am I spoiled and should be burdened by the plight of those who are living lives of extreme hardship?
There are children in Thailand who are sold into the sex slave trade with no hope of ever tasting freedom. In Northern Uganda families are being slaughtered by their own youth who were captured and turned into child soldiers for guerilla warfare. People are starving to the point of eating sand just to ease thier hunger pain. Even in Saskatchewan our poverty rate is rising at an alarming pace rivaled only by our declining literacy rate. declining literacy in 2006!
Awareness without action is useless.
And yet at the same time - I am not the savior of the world. I am aware that this isn't rocket science. But I have to learn to trust that God does have a plan for the poor and persecuted. God's plan however in no way relieves us of our responsibility to reach out and care for them I need to re-realize, HE IS THE SAVIOR of the world - physically, spiritually and emotionally - not I.
In the midst of pondering all of this I feel convicted to pray. 'Pray?' I asked God. My respose was, 'Well I would God, but I don't know them personally. And thier hearts and I ... uh.... well - um.... OK - I'll pray."
Awareness without action is useless.
So here is me taking action and starting to pray.
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Super Erica - um... Not Quite
Posted by Erica R at 1:07 PM
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Sometimes I wonder where the whole "God's plan" thing lies in the spectrum of extreme circumstances. I know that God is soveriegn (sp?) and all that jazz... but can we really sit here and say that God plans for people to be so poor? Does God plan for the genocides that are happening all of the time in Africa? Does God plan for people to die without food... or worse, love? How is it that we can sit here and say that 'it is in God's plan for these terrible things to happen..... but God is a good God..... and yes, it's in his plan'. Its just hard for me to understand sometimes. Or, is "God's plan" something we just throw out there to make ourselves feel better? Or is there something more to it?.... Like I said, sometimes I just don't understand why terrible things like this happen and why we have to say that is God's will....
God's plan? Hmmm
(I love your brain Amy)...
My newest thots of late have been infinte vs finite. We are limited in our timelines and therefore our understanding of God. God is infinite and His time for restoration may be to large for us to even fully comprehend.
Maybe? Just thots....
Just a thought to throw into the mix...not that I claim to know much of anything. But in the midst of pain/persecution/hardship - how does God as redeemer factor in? I don't think bad stuff is part of God's "plan" - or perhaps I just don't want to. What I do see is a God who redeems the horrific things and turns them into opportunities for him to be glorified. Anyways...just a thought.
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