faith in nepal

“What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you’ve read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. Why? You’ve read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He’s not only read your story…he wrote it. “
— Max Lucado

i was approached by a kid yesterday (he looked maybe 5-7 years old) for 1 ruppee (which is 1/77th of a US dollar). i was tempted, but told not to because the majority of the kids here are addicted to glue. the skinnier they are, the more addicted they are because they spend all their money on glue.

the country’s national symbol is the buddhist eye. the symbol is everywhere, on clothes and walls and roads. Most of the population here are either buddhist or hindu.

it’s hard to have faith in God, more specifically, Jesus here. thinking, and actually seeing the injustice, poverty, and the enormous population worshipping idols here is really a test for me and i can feel my faith dampering.

but i must harvest the little faith that i have. it’s not faith that God will do what i think is right, and what i want to happen. it’s faith that God will do what is He knows is right when the time is right. it’s faith that God is the all-mighty, powerful God He says He is, and His wisdom and plans are far greater than any human mind can understand.

Faith that God knows what He is doing. He is GOD, anyway. it’s so easy for me to just look what’s around me and ask God, why can’t you just fix everything NOW. but like the quote above, if God is who he says He is, He has control. it may seem bleak and hopeless now, but in the grand scheme of all things, God’s with us. God already knows what will happen, He wrote it. And we’re in good hands. This country, this world is in good hands.