Helping the World Find Hope in Haiti
TCC Field Report | January 16, 2010
As our team of radio reps gathered together to pray before we went out for our weekly witnessing, a thought occurred to me. Haiti had just experienced one of the greatest earthquakes in recorded history. The people there had lost everything: family, friends, all their possessions. It also occured to me that they would probably give anything to be where we are right now.
God has graciously blessed us with so much in this country, and what can we do to say thanks? Well, we could start by doing what He has commanded us to do – go out and preach His Gospel to every creature. Not that we need to pay Him back for His grace (and not that we every could), but if we are truly thankful to the God Who has given us so much, why would we not all want to please Him by doing the very thing He has commanded us all to do?
What if tomorrow was our “Haiti experience”? What if we were in their shoes tomorrow? This overwhelming thought drove me, and the rest of our team, to step out in faith and talk about the Haiti earthquake with the people in our community and to more boldly share the Hope that is within us. If tomorrow we knew people were going to die in an earthquake here, where would these people be going when they died? Do they know the Lord Jesus Christ?
We had some great conversations with people and our hope was that they would see that in a blink of an eye, everything could be taken away…even their life! What are you hoping in, or more importantly, who are you hoping in? We need to plead with people to see that in their current state, they have no hope (or a false hope), and true hope comes only with repenting and trusting in Jesus Christ. So, if we lost everything here tomorrow like Haiti has lost today, we could rest in our eternal security even through a temporal disaster.
In Him,
Chris | TCC Radio Field Representative
Tags: Current Events, faith, Haiti, hope, repentance
