Being His Hands and Feet

I went for a walk the other morning to Wolanda's house (a little girl, three years old, who was burned badly).  She was in a clinic in our village for nine weeks.  As I got close to her house, she saw me and started laughing and jumping up and down.  She ran to me, took my hand, and hugged me.  She couldn't wait to sit her naked body on my lap.  As tears came to my eyes, God reminded me in such a precious way that He loves all the children of the world:  red and yellow black and white, they are precious in His sight.  He also reminded me that when we help and show love to one of these precious ones, we are helping HIM BY BEING HIS HANDS AND FEET.

-Carolyn

God Reveals Himself

Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

 

It is a beautiful sunny day here in MareRouge today.  It has been rainy and cloudy but that is good for the gardens here.  Please continue to pray that God will continue to use us to bless the Haitian people and point them to Jesus.

 

God sometimes reveals Himself...a young malnourished orphan needs milk...through a Christian who provides the formula.  He sometimes reveals Himself...a mom and children needing food or clothing because their dad is in prison...through a caring missionary stopping by to find out what they need.  And sometimes through a blanket under which a homeless person is hiding, someone brought Him.  If we are waitng for the needy to walk through our church doors, we my wait a long time.  God doesn't wait for people to come to Him.  He goes to them and desires to intervene right at the point of their need.  He's looking for a few brave people who are willing to go rather than wait for them to come. He's not looking for show-offs.  He's looking for people through whom He can show off His Son.  May we be some of those people.  Going out brings them in and helps meet their needs.



Carolyn helping some neighbor children with math and reading Creole.  They came too late in the year to go to school, and they had not been in school where they were living before.



 

Compassion

God has used my mom's passing to help me look at life and death differently than I had before.  In my quiet times, God has spoken to me very plainly about how thankful I should be to have had a godly mom who taught me about Jesus.  I am thankful that she is in heaven, and one day I will see her again.  He continued to speak to me about how I need to encourage others to ask for the compassion that Jesus had for the lost when He was on this earth.  Everyday we should be ready to tell others the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  We should have a compassion for those that have not had a family to tell them about Jesus.  We need to make sure they have an opportunity to hear.  Make an effort to share Jesus with someone.  You and I had the opportunity; shouldn't others?  Who will not go to heaven because you or I did not tell them?  Think about it:  this life is short compared to eternity.  Scripture says to ask and it will be given you.  Ask for compassion for the lost and see what God does through you.

 

Blessings,

Carolyn