HAITI IS PRAYING FOR YOU!
Yes, HAITI is praying for YOU!!!
The ones that according to the world's standards have absolutely nothing - are praying for you! Ancy and his family - who live in a cement block, one room house, with at least eight people - whose floor is the ground and whose ceiling leaks a river every time it rains - and whose toilet is a hole outback - are praying for you...
This young man's heart is so precious and so JESUS like.
He has taken on the role of caretaker of not just the property, but of the families that live on and around the property very seriously. His Mom and Grandma love preparing food for all the kids and honestly it's probably the cleanest piece of land in the whole country. Ancy knows Mr Maurice's distaste for garbage to be strewn everywhere - so yup - it's the cleanest acreage in the nation!
He's also overseeing the building of a wall - that because of bandits with guns - we needed to put up around the four containers and the two vehicles. And when we say overseeing - we mean overseeing. He's meticulous. He does things right the first time because his teacher was Mr Maurice.
When we look at Ancy we see a man after God's own heart and that's beyond exciting for Nan Rasin.
You know - JESUS says that a person's life does not consist in the possessions that he has - but rather about WHAT IS COMING!!! This temporary life is just that - TEMPORARY - so our focus is supposed to be on our final destination - not where we are!!!
"So - don't store up for yourselves treasures here on earth - STORE THEM WHERE YOU'RE GOING!"
"Don't worry about tomorrow - JUST TRUST HIM FOR YOUR DAILY BREAD!!!"
"Seek FIRST HIS KINGDOM and HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS!!!"
"Sell your possessions and use the money to clothe the naked, feed the hungry and and give shelter to the homeless!!"
Think about those words for just a second!
Can you imagine if we actually FOLLOWED Jesus the way HE longs for us to follow?!
Did you know that the word FOLLOW in the original text means TO DISOWN ONE'S LIFE?!
So when JESUS says, "COME AND FOLLOW ME!", what He is actually saying is, "COME AND DISOWN YOUR LIFE! Put to death your desires and embrace what I DESIRE! Put to death YOUR WAY and bow to MY WAYS!"
Ah if we disowned our lives...
There would be no more kids going to sleep hungry!
There would be no more prisoners going without food, not just in Haiti, but in so many other places around our world that so need the Body of Christ to BE the BODY OF CHRIST.
The world would SEE the REAL JESUS and He'd be irresistible...
AH, there is nothing more beautiful than watching THE BODY OF CHRIST be HIS HANDS and HIS FEET and HIS HEART and HIS VOICE to the poor, the lonely, the destitute, the hungry, the thirsty and those that are desperately lost in their sins.
Oh JESUS - help us to TRULY FOLLOW YOU!!!!
For the sake of our world that is so messed up - that is so in turmoil - that is so confused and hurting - help us to pick up our crosses and crucify our flesh and BE WHO YOU LONG FOR US TO BE!!!
Give us the courage to look away from the temporary to our FOREVER HOME so that we will LIVE LIKE WE ARE LEAVING, because WE ARE!!!
May we choose to see EVERYTHING through the lens of ETERNITY, because that will change the way we pray, the way we give, the way we react to adversity - oh, IT WILL TRANSFORM THE WAY WE LIVE - which will point the world to YOU!!!
May we choose not get caught up in civilian affairs!!!
May we guard our minds against being deceived into thinking this is all there is!!!
PLEASE - take our faces in your hands and tilt them to your face because in the LIGHT and GLORY of YOUR FACE - everything else fades away!!!
YES and AMEN.
We join our prayers with Ancy's - and pray that with every sunrise you wake up expecting His return - that throughout your day HIS PRESENCE and HIS PROMISES will be more real to you than your circumstance - that in this crazy covid chapter that you will choose to just do the free fall into THE ARMS that will never fail you - AND that our Father will BLESS YOU IN ABUNDANCE for your generous giving and constant prayers for the least of these...
Like all of you - and our whole world - we have no idea what tomorrow holds - and we don't have to - because JESUS is already there and HE has COMMANDED us to LIVE FOR TODAY and not worry about tomorrow - so that is what we are doing!!!
THANKS AGAIN for your incredibly lavish giving in 2020 - your receipts will be in the mail shortly - BUT INFINITELY BETTER THAN A TAX BREAK - YOUR REWARD IN HEAVEN WILL BLOW YOUR SOCKS OFF and make you REAL glad you LIVED for what's coming and not the temporary!!!!!
LOOKING AT THE SKY AND LONGING FOR HEAVEN,
Maurice and Sue