I am not understood by the world because although I am in the world I have been called to not be OF it. Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever find even one person who will understand my unrelenting passion for children without a voice. My passion for victims of abortion, trafficking, slavery, and poverty. I didn’t choose that passion. God gave it to me, and I treasure it with all my heart. My friends are supportive. They love me even when they don’t understand me, but it isn’t about being understood, or about if I will ever find someone, anyone, who can relate to my heart. It’s about loving my father and following Him where He leads me, it’s about stepping outside my comfort zone even when I really don’t want to, and it is about becoming the daughter of my Daddy who loves these children more than I ever could. I was made to love Him and to praise Him every day of my life. “For whatever you have done unto the least of these, you have done unto me.” The next time you look into the face of a child what will you see? They are the least of these. They are Jesus, and sometimes they cannot speak for themselves. They cannot be their own advocates. Once aware of a situation, we are responsible to act. We are responsible to LOVE. We are responsible to be the voice for the voiceless. Through our obedience to his call on the church to care for the oppressed and poor, we find meaning and joy in our own lives.
Isaiah 58 says this;
Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen?
To loose the chains of injustice
And untie the cords of the yoke?
To set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?
Is it not to share your food with the hungry
And to provide the poor wanderer with shelter?
When you see the naked to clothe him
And not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
It later goes on to say:
Then you will find your joy in the Lord
And I will cause you to ride on the
Heights of the land
And to feast on the inheritance of
Your father Jacob
The mouth of the Lord has spoken
Our JOY is in the Lord. What a profound, awesome statement. “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will make your paths straight.” He’ll give you everything you need. He’ll fill that void in your heart that the things of this world cannot fill because He called us to something more than that. We were made for intimacy with our Father. If you pressed your ear against God’s heart, what would you hear? He loves us all with a passion that we’ll never fully understand. He wants us to feel whole and happy and joyful inside even when the world is looking for contentment in all the wrong places. We’re surrounded by materialism, conditional love, and hypocrisy. It makes the Lord so sad when He sees that. His children are called to so much more. This morning while I was reading my bible, I came across these verses in Jeremiah chapter 9: 23- 24;
This is what the Lord says;
“Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom,
Or the strong man boast of his strength,
Or the rich man boast of his riches
But let him who boast boast about this:
That he understand and knows me
That I am the Lord who exercises kindness,
Justice and righteousness on earth
For in these I delight” declares the Lord.
The Lord delights in justice. He delights in His people who walk uprightly with Him. Everyone has a calling on their lives for which once they know they are responsible, do you know what yours is?
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