December 17, 2005

• Now and then I have to do entries like this one.  Don’t let it discourage you, rather let it spur you on in prayer.  We live for a greater hope than anything this world has to offer…

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  An excerpt from a past newsletter that Pastor Chae wrote from the orphanage…

  
  

   

  
  

       “Not all our children are orphans.  A third of them have one parent.  Some of the parents are critically ill or terminally sick of incurable disease (such as leprosy); for some of them, no one knows where their parents are, and some are in prisons.  Once in a while when they are discharged from the prison, they come to get their children.  In that case, we will eventually have to release the child according to governmental regulations, but we have to be very careful, because the child, particularly when she is a girl, is often used as a house maid, or even sexually molested.  At first, the child is happy to live with the kinsman, but I am afraid that at least a half of such cases end up unhappy.

  
  

   

  
  

       When they say “good bye,” I usually tell them to write to me regularly.  One child said, “I do not know how to write letters,” so I bought her a bunch of postcards with our address written on them.  I said, “If you do not know what to write, just draw a circle on it if you are alright.”  The first card came back the following week with a big circle.  “She must be happy,” I thought.  But gradually the circles were getting smaller and eventually stopped coming.  After a year, I was so concerned that I could not wait any longer.  I traveled four hours to go see her.  She was dirty and sick.  She was laying on the cement floor wrapped with a dirty blanket and had a head full of lice.  When she saw me, she started to cry.  I could not leave her there anymore, no matter what the government said.  In our home, a big clear circle is the symbol of happiness.”

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  Wake up church!  This world is loaded with stories like that young orphan girl.  This world has been broken ever since sin entered it.  We were never meant to live in this mess.  It can be fixed though.  There is hope…

  
  

   

  
  

  Pray for His return.  Pray that God may show you the role that He has for you in bringing His kingdom… so that the hurting may stop and we may be fully with Him. 

  
  

   

  
  

  God will lead you.  God will use you.  Do not fear being used by Him.  Offer your body as a living sacrifice; He loves you and has blessed plans for you.  Pray that you may know them and fulfill them, that He may come. 

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  Hebrews 11:13-16 says of those who lived by faith…

  
  

   

  
  

      “All these people were still living by faith when they died.  They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance.  And they admitted they were aliens and strangers on earth.  People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own.  If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.  Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one.  Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  Revelation 21:4

  
  

   

  
  

       “He will wipe every tear from their eyes.  There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  Come, Lord Jesus.

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