Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Consolatta

So I was watching this video and my heart broke. This woman is my age.  She has been deserted by her family, raped, and no long able to walk.  When I watch this video I feel two main emotions. Guilt. Guilty that I have like a family who loves me, two working legs, and never experienced great suffering.  I also feel pity.  Pity for her and how sad a situation she is in.

It is quite possible that I would have forgotten about this girl in about a week.  But then God started stirring in my heart.  These videos are created for a reason. For more than just 5 minutes of pity and guilt. God changed these emotions to compassion, but I want to live my life to help woman such as her.  Children who have been abandoned, raped, prostituted, abused, and left to feel more emotions than they can possibly handle.  I want to watch God transform their lives.  I want to tell them they are not just a number or a video I saw once.  I want to look them in the eye and tell them the God of universe sent His perfect Son to die, so that He could one day hold you in His hand and tell you of His love for you.

I soon realize my pity and guilt will get Consolatta no where, but God is in her life.  He is revealing His love in her life.  The fact that she can get in front of a camera and tell her story is AMAZING!  He is revealing His glory through her.  I don't know this woman anymore than this video that is a little under 5 minutes, but I want to be a servant to a God who is as powerful enough to bring her from where she was to where she is now.

The best part is..He isn't done in her life and He isn't done in mine.

The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,
   because the LORD has anointed me
   to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
   to proclaim freedom for the captives
   and release from darkness for the prisoners,
to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor
   and the day of vengeance of our God,
to comfort all who mourn, 
and provide for those who grieve in Zion—
to bestow on them a crown of beauty
   instead of ashes,
the oil of joy
   instead of mourning,
and a garment of praise
   instead of a spirit of despair.
They will be called oaks of righteousness,
   a planting of the LORD
   for the display of his splendor. 
Isaiah 61:1-3

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