What's goin' on?
So yesterday at church we had a missionary as a guest speaker. His name is Hector Tamez. I remember a while back I met his son and sons wife, and I shared with them how it's very strong in my heart to go on a mission. I was supposed to go on a mission with them but was not able to because my job didn't allow me the time off. But, well, everything happens for a reason and only God knows because He has His own timing set for us.
So anyways. Yes, he spoke and my God, my heart was thriving on every word. He has literally been ALL OVER THE WORLD, just spreading the Gospel and helping the persecuted church. He shared with us an incident that happened some place in the middle east, sorry that I can't remember exactly where. He told us about a young girl named Rosa. It broke my heart hearing part of her story. A group of people that hate christians barged into her home and shot her mother, father and uncle...right in front of her. Then they found her from her hiding spot and continued to gang rape her. They left her like a sack of rotten potatoes. Her neighbor went to check on the place because she had not seen any action going on over there in a few days. So she goes into the home and sees the young girl just sitting in a corner, hurt and abused, and sees the massacre of the other family members.
Immediately the lady ran to get some people to help, so then came a man to take Rosa to a hospital. He asked them to please check her and see what damage has been done, and that he would be back because he needed to investigate further of what happened at the home.
So he returns and sees Rosa sitting in the same spot that he had placed her in, still bloodied and hurt.
He runs to the doctor and yells, "WHY HAVE YOU NOT ATTENDED HER?", the man simply answers,"who cares about her, she is only a christian indian girl. Less than an animal."
OMG. When he said that it broke my heart to pieces. But then the man that had took her to the hospital said something else. He said he just broke down and thought, "Oh Lord, but you see her as a QUEEN...in your eyes she is a QUEEN!!"
Phew, it's gonna make me cry again. How many more christians are persecuted and killed just for their faith? How many more Rosas are there out there? And here we are where we have FREEDOM in our faith and we don't even do anything about it. Here are missionaries smuggling bibles to people in third world countries, people that are hungering for something to believe in, HOPE for a better life. They are starving for the Word of God, and yet here I am sometimes saying "Oh I'll read the bible later....oh I'm too tired right now...oh I'm gonna go hang out with my friends...". COME ON!! I was so convicted, to the CORE. I need to delve myself in His word even more, slam my nose into those pages as much as I possibly can! Those are His love letters to us, that is how He can speak to us.
Man, Lord, I am WILLING to die for you....for my faith in you. Although you know I don't want to be a martyr, and I want to live long to share the Word and you, I still submit to your will and whatever you have in store for me! I DON'T CARE WHAT PEOPLE THINK! So many people look down on us, question YOU Lord, always trying to find something wrong in believing in you...HATING you. Man. I don't hate them Lord, I love them and all I can do is pray for them.
Someday I hope you understand what I mean. Sometimes people are just too lost in their bitterness, hatred, jealously, stuck in the past, or current problems to see the answer right in front of them!! STOP QUESTIONING!!!! Why don't you just TRY to believe..pray to Him, but not just a nonchalant prayer...if you want to know if He is really real, CHALLENGE HIM and pray a prayer from deep within your soul. He is real. More real than you can imagine. Wouldn't you rather have peace, joy and love in your heart? Yeah, you probably think you don't need God, that you got everything under control. Right. If you look deep in your heart, you know, you know that you are searching for something better. You can lie to me, yourself, but NOT to God. He knows everything. The very hidden secrets of your soul.
*Sigh* I just want everyone else to feel what I feel in my heart. That's all. I want everyone to know what it's like to be so loved by God. Following His path. It's not a religion! It's a RELATIONSHIP. Religion is just a bunch of LAWS! But that relationship...ahhh, now that's the treasure.
God bless you.
So anyways. Yes, he spoke and my God, my heart was thriving on every word. He has literally been ALL OVER THE WORLD, just spreading the Gospel and helping the persecuted church. He shared with us an incident that happened some place in the middle east, sorry that I can't remember exactly where. He told us about a young girl named Rosa. It broke my heart hearing part of her story. A group of people that hate christians barged into her home and shot her mother, father and uncle...right in front of her. Then they found her from her hiding spot and continued to gang rape her. They left her like a sack of rotten potatoes. Her neighbor went to check on the place because she had not seen any action going on over there in a few days. So she goes into the home and sees the young girl just sitting in a corner, hurt and abused, and sees the massacre of the other family members.
Immediately the lady ran to get some people to help, so then came a man to take Rosa to a hospital. He asked them to please check her and see what damage has been done, and that he would be back because he needed to investigate further of what happened at the home.
So he returns and sees Rosa sitting in the same spot that he had placed her in, still bloodied and hurt.
He runs to the doctor and yells, "WHY HAVE YOU NOT ATTENDED HER?", the man simply answers,"who cares about her, she is only a christian indian girl. Less than an animal."
OMG. When he said that it broke my heart to pieces. But then the man that had took her to the hospital said something else. He said he just broke down and thought, "Oh Lord, but you see her as a QUEEN...in your eyes she is a QUEEN!!"
Phew, it's gonna make me cry again. How many more christians are persecuted and killed just for their faith? How many more Rosas are there out there? And here we are where we have FREEDOM in our faith and we don't even do anything about it. Here are missionaries smuggling bibles to people in third world countries, people that are hungering for something to believe in, HOPE for a better life. They are starving for the Word of God, and yet here I am sometimes saying "Oh I'll read the bible later....oh I'm too tired right now...oh I'm gonna go hang out with my friends...". COME ON!! I was so convicted, to the CORE. I need to delve myself in His word even more, slam my nose into those pages as much as I possibly can! Those are His love letters to us, that is how He can speak to us.
Man, Lord, I am WILLING to die for you....for my faith in you. Although you know I don't want to be a martyr, and I want to live long to share the Word and you, I still submit to your will and whatever you have in store for me! I DON'T CARE WHAT PEOPLE THINK! So many people look down on us, question YOU Lord, always trying to find something wrong in believing in you...HATING you. Man. I don't hate them Lord, I love them and all I can do is pray for them.
Someday I hope you understand what I mean. Sometimes people are just too lost in their bitterness, hatred, jealously, stuck in the past, or current problems to see the answer right in front of them!! STOP QUESTIONING!!!! Why don't you just TRY to believe..pray to Him, but not just a nonchalant prayer...if you want to know if He is really real, CHALLENGE HIM and pray a prayer from deep within your soul. He is real. More real than you can imagine. Wouldn't you rather have peace, joy and love in your heart? Yeah, you probably think you don't need God, that you got everything under control. Right. If you look deep in your heart, you know, you know that you are searching for something better. You can lie to me, yourself, but NOT to God. He knows everything. The very hidden secrets of your soul.
*Sigh* I just want everyone else to feel what I feel in my heart. That's all. I want everyone to know what it's like to be so loved by God. Following His path. It's not a religion! It's a RELATIONSHIP. Religion is just a bunch of LAWS! But that relationship...ahhh, now that's the treasure.
God bless you.