I've been struggling with what exactly I should write
in this weeks blog. Usually I set aside a good
amount of time to focus and pray to God,
to read and understand his word. I pray
that he reveals his word to me, that he
reveals something he wants me to write.
Obviously Haiti is dominating the news,
and it is an overwhelming tragedy.
This morning I felt led to read "Psalm 18"
and when I opened my bible it opened
straight to "Psalm 46" in which I had the first
verse highlighted, so I quickly glanced at it and
read it before I went to Psalm 18, and Psalm
46 verse one says;
"God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble."
Amen to that, and a verse
that should be, and probably
is on the minds of a lot of Haitian
people. Psalms 46 continues with..
"Therefore we will not fear,
though the earth give way
and the mountains fall into
the heart of the sea,
though its waters roar and foam
and the mountains quake with their
surging"
Psalm 46:1-3
After reading that needless to say
I figured out what I was going to write about.
Now you may be thinking,
"Ok, what does Psalm 18 say though?"
"I love you, O Lord, my strength.
The Lord is my rock, my fortress
and my deliverer; my God is my rock,
in whom I take refuge.
He is my shield and the horn of
my salvation, my stronghold.
I call to the Lord, who is worthy
of praise, and I am saved from my enemies.
The cords of death entangled me;
the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.
The cords of the grave coiled around me;
the snares of death confronted me.
In my distress I called to the Lord;
I cried to my God for help.
From his temple he heard my voice;
my cry came before him, into his ears.
The earth trembled and quaked,
and the foundations of the
mountains shook;
they trembled because he was angry.
Psalm 18:1-7
So...Yeah...I figured ok? I'm suppose
to write something about the Haiti quake.
First things first,
Two things tend to happen in a natural disaster,
one: obviously people die and or get injured
two: Pat Robertson opens his stupid pie hole.
Let me establish something real quick,
Pat Robertson doesn't SPEAK FOR ME.
It's funny because before this
terrible Haiti quake even happened I was
talking with my mom about how Mr.Robertson
came out with his yearly rant on what will
happen in 2010.
What disgusts me is people look at Pat Robertson
like he is the voice of the Christian faith,
like he is the shining example of what a Christian should be.
It's bad enough non-believers think we as christians
are all like Pat Robertson, but even a lot of "Christians"
listen to what this guy says and put him on some kind of
pedestal.
Personally I think if we should be looking at anyone
to be like, it should be Jesus Christ. Pat Robertson
said and I quote "Haiti made a deal with the devil,
and thats why the quake happened"
Really? and who exactly is Pat Robertson
that he gets to say why God does anything?
Is there a lot of voodoo/satanisim in Haiti?
yeah, but we are called to love
and spread the word of Christ not
to throw down judgement on a whole
nation of people.
Did God allow the quake to happen, well
everything happens for a reason right?
Only God knows why it happened,
and I'm not even going to begin to throw
out accusations of why it did, and I'm specially not
going to judge people who are suffering
and dying. I mean God did say in the last days
a lot of stuff like this would happen....
I would just like to apologize to the Haitian people
for one supposed "Christians" remarks,
and tell everyone that we should be loving and
supportive, we should reach out and help people
in need. After all I don't remember Jesus Christ
coming up to the demon possessed man
and saying
"You deserve what happened to you"
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