Do you ever look at the world and get overwhelmed? I mean it’s easy to do, isn’t it? It seems like there are more problems than solutions. And the world seems to be getting worse, or at least we know about more of the bad stuff going on.
Let me tell you about the last couple of weeks. I was at Jack’s baseball game when a step-dad of one of our players started cussing out the dad. When another parent asked him to watch his mouth, he tried to fight him. I stepped in between, so that our kids wouldn’t see 2 grown men fight. My friend Daren, who witnessed this said, “What kind of life can that boy expect to have when he grows up.” Daren told me how he prayed that night for the boy in that situation. Our world needs more men like Daren, men whose first reaction is to pray!
A few days later there is a mass shooting at a college campus in Oregon. Christians were shot in the head for just being followers of Jesus. We look at this and scream “UNFAIR”. We also look for leadership to help us address our emotional state. Ben Carson was the leader who stepped in and helped us to start our healing process. He simply stated, “I Am a Christian.”
Jack has played baseball the last two Monday nights, and at both games Terri and I received news that a teen had died. There is something so numbing about a teen dying! You can’t wrap your brain around it, your heart breaks, and you think about the teens in your life and how much you love them.
Why am I telling you this? Am I trying to ruin your day? No, I want you to know that God hasn’t forgotten about us, He hasn’t forgotten about you.
C.S. Lewis said in The Problem of Pain, “We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” I believe that God is calling us right now! Will we stand up and be heard? Will we serve God and speak healing into a broken world? As a follower of Jesus Christ, I am God’s Ambassador; therefore, I will go! Will you join me?
Pray for our Broken World! Get involved in healing our Broken World! Share Jesus with someone today!