Day 12 – The church with no walls
I was so moved this morning at the local worship service. There was laughter and beautiful singing. The tone was quite somber; repentance, being ready for death, a sense of urgency. The Word was preached powerfully.
The preacher said, “God is in control” – “Jesus sees and knows what we’ve gone through.” – “Some say that the earthquake was a natural disaster. Some say God did it, that He stomped on us. Some say that the earthquake was nothing compared to what is coming. I say that we must know that our lives are in Jesus’ hand. If the earth should open up and swallow us, will you be in Jesus’ hand?” “Even under the rubble, God is with us” – “If I have to die, my life is in His hand” – “Just like we all learned that you can’t run from an earthquake, you also can’t run from death” – “Come and give your life to Jesus”
And once again, we saw people come to surrender their lives to Jesus!
I thought that the church attendance would wane this week, but there were even more people than last week at this particular church. We sat under big beautiful trees, with a gentle breeze and worshipped with God’s people. Linda leaned over to me and whispered, “It’s like the garden of Eden”. And it hit me – the church of God was forced out of her walls. Over these past days as we walked through the streets, we saw many church pews set up under large and small tarps. The church is no longer behind walls. The church is on the street, where the people are. And the Spirit continues to move.
The rains are coming. More and more people have tents or tarps, but we still see many laying under sheets. Lord have mercy. We have a few tents coming, but it is so few before such need. We gave out two tarps yesterday, all that we had with us. The city needs large equipment to help remove the rubble. So many needs. We can only give relief in relation to what God supplies. Rain down manna Lord.
Mike
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