Reflections on Today, The Lord's Day

Wow. What a day. Where do I even begin? We worshipped with the Haitians. Awesome. I got to preach out of Psalm 8: a privilege as it always is in Haiti when I get to preach. We walked through the countryside of Mirebalais. Awesome. We went to the home of a man who was a witch doctor as recently as Thursday this last week. We saw the VooDoo flags flying earlier this week since his home is right by the GCA property. Today all his VooDoo ritual stuff had been torn down. God did an awesome thing ... see 1Peter 2:9,10 (I kept thinking about this verse when I was listening to this man). This was unbelievably awesome. I saw a sign in Jayhawk colors that said, "Kansas Team, Welcome to Boyer, Welcome Home". That was wild and awesome in its own way. We walked to the home of another man who said he wanted to give his life to Christ and we prayed with him, only to see his girls were not doing well. This was very hard to see and a lot of questions arose in our heads as to why these girls were not doing well.

It's been way too much to process, but I'll try a little to do so ... walking around in Haiti is so different from walking around in the States. I've always described coming to Haiti as "stepping into the world of the New Testament". The things we experience here are a far cry from our bland-brand of Post Enlightenment rationalism where we have placed an unbridled trust in our own faculties to make judgments about ultimate reality, ... yet we still find ourselves living quiet lives of desperation with so much brokenness and loss around us. In our fierce autonomy, we reject divine revelation as having any significance or relevance for our lives. I know some of you reading this back home think that the humanitarian stuff we do is good, but all this Jesus talk starts getting a little hokey. Maybe. Or maybe rather in our finitude, our judgments are rather skewed like an efficient saw cutting with great precision, yet pointed in the wrong direction (Cornelius Van Til). Think about it. What if God is present in a world He made and enters our world through flesh and blood, gives Himself a name, and then offers new life and hope to all who call upon Him? Hokey? Maybe, ... or, ... maybe not? Just think about it, OK? Peace be with you.