Without God, there is no justice. God IS justice.
Without God there is no peace. God IS peace.
Without God, there is no freedom. God IS freedom.
Without God, there is no hope. God IS hope.
Serving in a missions organization whose focus is on poverty and justice, it is always a welcomed reminder that we can't bring justice. God brings that...and we don't BRING God, God is already there. He is already where we are going. It is our job to try and point people to Him. We can't bring peace on our own. We can only show the peace Christ has showed us. There is no lasting peace if Christ is not in it. It is just a lull between the storms. We cannot bring freedom apart from Christ, because without Christ, oppression still reigns. Without Christ, we cannot give hope. There is no hope without the message of Jesus. It helps to remind me that we are in love with Jesus as a family, and that's why we are here. We always knew it, we never stopped believing it, it's just sometimes good to speak it out. The only reason we do what we do with any certainty that it helps at all, is because the things we want to see happen are ONLY possible through Jesus Christ.
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