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 What if it is was your child who had anything to eat, no clothes to
wear, no medical treatment, and you had no hope of getting these things
for him? Wouldn’t your prayer be that God would send somebody to
alleviate the pain and the suffering of an empty stomach, a tooth ache,
a parasite infestation so bad that worms are coming out your child’s
nose? We live in the greatest country on the planet earth.
We have or can get needs met. Oh, how our hearts hurt when we
talk to boys and girls and we ask the question, have you had anything
to eat today and they simply shake their heads and say no.
Sometimes they survive on just a piece of bread or a piece of sugar
cane.
The question might be in your mind, what can I do? I can’t
tell you what to do, because if I told you what to do, we’d all go down
there and we’d pick up all those boys and girls in our arms and we’d
bring them home with us. We know that’s impossible. Only
Jesus can put on your heart and my heart what we can do to help.
Not everyone can leave his job and go to Haiti, but everyone can pray
and everyone can give something. Everyone can encourage or help sponsor
those who God does allow to go and minister among the boys and
girls. Maybe you’re a business man, maybe you’re a doctor, a
dentist, a nurse, or just an average American that’s been saved by the
grace of Jesus Christ through faith, and your heart’s been touched to
go see for yourself. Trips are made several times a year.
We’d love to have you join a team.
In Proverbs we find Solomon’s words of wisdom regarding our treatment
of the poor, Proverbs 21:13, “Whosoever stopped his ears at the cry of
the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard” and
Proverbs 28:27, “He that giveth to the poor shall not lack; but
he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.” As the sun rose in
the Caribbean nation of Haiti this morning, so it will set in the
evening with many boys and girls lying on dirt floors in a mud huts
with empty stomachs, and no hope. We, as God’s people, must meet
the challenge to give hope to these people spiritually and physically.
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