Wednesday 10 April 2013

We cannot do everything...


"We cannot do everything, but we must not do nothing"


These were the words resounding in my ears after our evening with Baroness Cox, a woman who, at 75 years of age, is still putting her life on the line time and time again to bring desperately needed aid to the out of bounds people groups of the world. We spent the evening hearing about events in Nigeria, Burma and the Sudan, where millions, believers and unbelievers, are facing extreme persecution; villages burned down, families murdered, people forced into exile, churches destroyed.

I tell you, it gave me some perspective...

How easily I get swept up in my own little worries and concerns, when somewhere else in the world, a woman is fighting for food to feed her starving child...

How afraid I get, sometimes, to speak the name of Jesus to my friends, worried that they'll mock me, or just think I'm weird, when somewhere else in the world, someone is having to chose between Jesus or their life...

What a wake up call.

I was left stunned, and inspired, and broken and challenged.

Archbishop Ben Kwashi's words will stick with me forever...

"If we have a faith worth living for, then it is a faith worth dying for. Don't YOU compromise that faith that WE are living and dying for"

Amen.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks, Clarina, I was looking for that quote from Archbishop Ben Kwashi. Even though I was there at the New Word Alive conference where, presumeably you heard this, I couldn't quite remember it. I hope the words will stick with me for a little longer now I have them written down.. Martin

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