How could I avoid this topic any longer? When tragedy strikes, it is our job to act. Humanity was created with community in mind. “I’ve been there”, is one of the most comforting things that we can ever hear. There are other people who feel the same way you do. Who have done what you have done. Who have been through something similar, and it helps to know that you are not alone. Hell doesn’t feel like Hell when you hear, “me too”. “Me too”, are two of the most powerful words that we can ever hear. This is because loneliness is conquered by connection.
Many times we wrestle with God because our opinion of Him is that He is distant and that He doesn’t know what it is like to be us. We don’t have a deity that is clueless. We serve a God that was God enough to make the decision to be with us. He didn’t have to, but He did, just to relate better. (John 1:14) God became flesh and blood and moved into the neighborhood. Not only does He understand what it is to live like us, He knows what it is like to suffer like us. He knows what it means to struggle like us, in the worst way. He is the God that knows what it’s like. He’s not way far way, He is right here. He’s not there, He is here. He is present. He knows what it is like here.
You are God for someone else. You should not like when someone else is not included. You should not like it when there is exclusion, alienation, pain and loneliness. We are the God for those that don’t see the God of all things. We serve an invisible God, for the visible world to know He is there. We the visible, have to do what the invisible would do. We bring the invisible to the visible. Inclusion + Interaction = Incarnation. God loves to show up dressed as people. Incarnation can happen all the time if we begin to work. We can not let relief be trendy, it has to be typical.
Where was God in Haiti? He has always been there, wait for the rest of us to show up.
Haiti we are on the way!
CHURCH
