For about a month now I've been investing some time into South Sudan and what's going on there. My hearts is breaking for those innocent people who are facing genocide and I'm complaining about it being windy. Today I prayed to the Lord "My heart is breaking for them Lord, show me why". I've never had such an urge to want to help people before and it's specific to South Sudan. As I look at the pictures of women who give birth not knowing if they will see their child grow up because of the hunger threat or disease that may overtake them it breaks me. Tribal groups that are trained and armed to go at war (and are already at war) with each other and these innocent Sudan men, women and children are right smack in the middle. People who pray for death to meet them with their last breath because the pain is too much to take. Young toddlers scraping the dust for some kind of food to give them energy to face another day. Fathers who can't do a thing to help his family because he's too weak to move and watches as they wither away with him.
Break my heart Lord for what breaks yours...
When you put your kids to sleep tonight or you sit quietly in your house, say a prayer for those who are burying their kids or cant sleep for fear of death booming over them like thunder. Say a prayer that they find comfort in the midst of a raging war. Pray that God would speak to you on how to move....for them...
'For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.' "Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You drink? 'And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You? 'And when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?' "And the King will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.' Matthew 25:35-40
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