{"id":363,"date":"2008-02-22T08:09:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T08:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/2008\/02\/shock-and-outra.html"},"modified":"2008-02-22T08:09:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T08:09:39","slug":"shock-and-outra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2008\/02\/shock-and-outra.html","title":{"rendered":"Shock and Outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is from my buddy, Seth Barnes’ Blog<\/a>. Get ready to have your Friday morning wrecked. This is what God sees when he looks at the world.<\/p>\n

We have a team in Swaziland, that nation in Africa where nearly half the adult population has the AIDS virus. I received this email from Gary Black in Swaziland today and it wrecked me:
\n“The team found a four week-old laying on its dead mother yesterday, they kept it – we are getting it to the abandoned baby hospital Friday.”<\/p>\n

What do we do with this? That’s my son’s team down there. I don’t know about you, but I’m outraged by a world that produces situations like this. <\/p>\n

And while that may seem like a world away to many, for my son, it’s as immediate as it is heart-wrenching.<\/p>\n

The only thing that appalls me more is that so many of us Americans who can do something about this are more interested in stuff that will only ultimately burn up in the big fire. <\/p>\n

God help us. God, help us to wake up. Help us to see how much you love the widow and the orphan. God help us to break as you are broken up over this four week-old. <\/p>\n

God, help me to lose this tortoise shell religion that sheds these kinds of tragic situations like water. Forgive me God for not praying more. Forgive me for not emptying my bank account for your little ones. God, we have lost true religion. We have sought finer sanctuaries and better parking lots. <\/p>\n

We have tried to fill our church pews with seekers, but we have not sought your children dying on their mother’s chests. We need to see a way out of this mess that we’ve got ourselves in. God, help us in this 21st century mindset that we’ve acquired. I don’t even know what else to pray.<\/p>\n

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