Depraved Indifference

For awhile now, I've been wrestling with some things that have been stirred up deep within my heart.  A couple of months ago, I started reading the book Radical and it certainly lived up to its title.  You can't expect to read a book filled with that much hard-to-swallow truth and come away unchanged.  Justin just finished it yesterday and now we are both compelled to ask ourselves "Now what?"  We can't pretend that we don't know that there are 29,000 children that die every day because of hunger and preventable diseases.  We can't pretend that Jesus didn't command (not merely ask) us to sell everything and give to the poor.  We can't give lame excuses like we don't have enough money to make an impact or we don't have the time or resources to go overseas and meet these children that God holds so dear and calls by name.  Those excuses won't hold up.

And then, I saw this video and it tore my heart even further open.  What if it were my Lily sitting on the side of the road with no one to care for her?  What then?  Wouldn't I do everything in my power to make sure that someone would get to her as quickly as possible?  I would give my own life to make sure that happened. So, I'm faced with the realization that the God I love and serve tells me I am to love others as I love myself.  I certainly love myself enough to know that I don't want to die of starvation or lose my child to a horrible disease.  So this means I am to love these children, whom I don't even know by name, enough to not want the same for them.

I don't yet know what all of this is going to look like specifically in our family but I pray (and hope that you'll pray to this end for us too) that God will continue to break our hearts for what breaks His.  Maybe this video will impact you the way it did me.