Running for their lives

There is no one like our God. Worthy of exaltation, praise, love, worship, service. His plan is beautiful, his love is extravagant, his faithfulness is outstanding, and we cannot compare. He is Lord of all, Creator and Sustainer of all things. My God is ever so worth everything.

I am taken back at his mercy, I am uplifted by his grace. Tonight my heart is wrought with praise and sorrow. I praise my God, I praise him for the life he has given me, I praise him for giving me all the reasons in the world to have faith in him. I lift his name high as I celebrate his magnificent creation, I praise him for brothers and sisters in Christ who teach me everyday. I praise him for the hearts he makes ready for him to enter. I praise him because he is worthy of praise.

I cannot help but to mourn for those who die apart from Christ. Recently Japan has made headlines with its very tragic earthquake and tsunami. I cannot help but think of those who have died without knowing Jesus. I have caught myself stopping to recap the video I saw of the tsunami, and I keep finding myself amazed and traumatized because of the power of it all. As I watched the water whisking away boats and other large things that seem unmovable, I also noticed people running for their lives. If they did not know Jesus they were running for their lives, and rightly so, they had no promise, no assurance of salvation.

It has been said that through this tragedy blessing has occurred. People are becoming more open to the Gospel because of the imminent desperation. Picture this:

Those people who have survived being told of God and his redemptive plan. Curious, they study, more and more they become intrigued, they even catch themselves praying in times of hopelessness. Then they decide to give their lives to Christ...

They go and are baptized in the very waters that destroyed everything in its path. And there was one more added to their number.

Like that Michael Gungor song says, "You make beautiful things out of us". How true a statement is this. Our God is worthy of praise because he is able to make beautiful things out of this tragedy. He is able. There is no one like our God.

All to God

May God bless Japan and the workers for the Kingdom who are already established and those motivated to be established. May he guide the people that their hearts may be stirred for him. Our God is able.