The Crisis in Haiti

I am sitting in the Country Bean coffee shop writing my weekly blog and contemplating a couple of things. First, I have not been able to paddle for over a month. Last winter, I paddled just about every other week. But this year, it has just been too cold. And, it is pretty hard to paddle when the water is frozen over with ice! The other thing I have been thinking about is the fact that paddling really doesn't matter that much when one considers the huge loss of life in Haiti due to the 7.0 earthquake. They have estimated that at this point, 200,000 have died. They have buried 80,000 in mass graves. Two million are homeless. To put that in perspective, 200,000 souls passed into eternity, either Heaven or Hell. If an individual had trusted Jesus Christ as personal Savior they went to be with the Lord. If they had never heard the gospel and never relied upon Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, they died and awakened in the fires of Hell. That is a sobering thought. I know from my missions trip in Haiti several years ago that there are many believers there. 54 were saved in the services that I preached. But, I also know that there are many more who are lost. It is a miserable thing to be lost, but, it is doubly miserable to be lost and without hope in a desperate crisis such as has overtaken Haiti. Some have asked where God was in the tragic crisis that has happened in Haiti. Quite simply, God is there every time someone is pulled alive from the rubble. He is there with the pouring out of compassion and supplies from every area of the globe. He is there with the men of God who are preaching the gospel.