How Can We Not Help?

On Monday Geraldine, Mark, and I spent the afternoon driving to Salem to get yellow fever and typhoid shots for our upcoming mission trip to Haiti. You can tell you are in God’s will when the world thinks you are crazy! A nurse and another lady who was a patient there both told us how they would never set foot in Haiti because of the cholera outbreak, in spite of my telling them of two mission work teams who returned within the last five days with no ill effects. And now there’s hurricane Tomas. My response was, “How can you not help?” I fully understand that not everyone can physically go to Haiti, but some can. Others can financially support efforts there; through whichever aid organization they feel does the best job. Still others can be prayer warriors (I understand from several articles that the morale of the Haitian people affected by the earthquake and now Tomas, is extremely low...they need our prayers), or by supporting efforts to spread the good news of Jesus Christ to people there whose lives are entwined in voodoo and other cultish practices. How can you not help do something? Jesus said in Matthew 25 that whatever you do to the least of these you do to Jesus, and perhaps more important, whatever you fail to help one of the least of these, you failed to do it for Jesus. Those are words that are incomprehensible to those caught up in worldly affairs. Keep us in your prayers as we prepare for our trip next February…and ask God what He would have you do to help the suffering of the people of Haiti.