All the King’s Horses
Since the earthquake of January 12, Haiti has been at the forefront of our work. We have seen thousands of patients and shipped hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of medicines and goods here. Sure there are fewer people with worms in Haiti. But they will get reinfected. Sure some amputees now have prosthetics. But there are 300,000 other amputees paralyzed by their immobility. Looking around Port-au-Prince I see how insignificant our work is here. No matter how much stuff we bring we can never fix Haiti.
But G-D can.
Foreigners will never be able to influence the Haitian culture enough to see much change. The Haitian people need to be radically transformed in a way that only Jesus can change them. The lives, minds, hearts, and souls of this people need to open up to the All-Powerful love of Christ. Only then will Haiti grow out of its poverty and fight the injustices from the inside. No amount of medicine will open their ears to the invitation of Christ.
Even Jesus knew that His audience would not listen to Him unless He silenced their grumbling bellies with food before hand. He also knew that holiness was irrelevant to someone without health. So too we strive to meet the immediate needs of the Haitians simply to introduce their greater need: Jesus.
Jesus, however, means nothing to the orphaned beggar or the abused widow.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Haiti together again.
Some trust in horses and some trust in chariots but we trust in the Name of the LORD our G-D.
