The Heart of God

Today, someone in small group shared about her recent missions trip to Haiti. All of her stories were touching and made me think about how humbling it must be to go into a foreign land to help those in need. She talked about how she felt so powerless since she wasn't a doctor or a dentist, but at the same time, how she had to rely on God for power and for God to pour His love upon the children and people she encountered. It's amazing how powerful we can be when we rely on God because more than physical healing, we can give a Godly hope.

With that aside, one story really stuck out. There was a 19 year old Canadian girl (oh you Canadians...why are you so nice), who literally slept and lived with 70 orphans at an orphanage in Haiti to help them. Since clean water is not readily accessible there, the orphanage relies on an organization called Samaritan's Purse to bring water. However, Samaritan's Purse had not come the day before and so they were without clean water for 2 days. Our small group member and her team gave this girl some of their own water to keep her strong, but instead of keeping it for herself, she took a small sip and shared it amongst the children. pause here Think about the beauty of this scenario, here is a 19 year old girl who is blessed with so much and can have a healthy comfortable life in Canada, but instead, she's living in the slums of Haiti, amongst the orphans, in poor conditions, clearly very thirsty, AND while she has the chance to have some comfort through clean water, she instinctively shares it with the children that she came to love. WOW.

I heard this story and inside, it felt like my heart grew. That is God's love in that girl because what she is doing is very much what Jesus did when he came down to earth from a heavenly throne to die for our sins. That love became so tangible to me through this testimony that tonight, I feel very very blessed and reminded about the sacrifice that God made for us.

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." - John 3:16-17