Rescue & Recovery

I was watching something yesterday evening that used the illustration of the catastrophe and chaos following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake, comparing it to the cultural earthquake that has happened in the western world. 

The question posed was...

If there was complete devastation and you were part of the rescue and recovery team, what would you do?

I imagine we would move into action! A team would form and each person would do their part.  Each one would be focused on the task at hand, doing what they could to help others:

• removing debris 
• giving aid to the injured 
• encouraging those who are stuck
• using all the available resources
• praying for a good outcome

A disaster calls for full engagement!

The whole community moves into action, doing whatever they can to help.  Special resources, like search and rescue dogs, are mobilized.  Attention is focused, the workers are doing their part and the onlookers are praying.



Working in the city, I see all kinds of devastation.  Some is obvious like homelessness, poverty, disease and crime.  However, the observable is only a manifestation of the desperation that lives in the human heart.  Every person I've met, regardless of their circumstances, has hopes and dreams.  Some have been realized and some have been shattered.  Some people are resilient, but some lose hope and move to despair.
  

The Lord is on a rescue mission, restoring hope!  

And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.  ROMANS 5:6-8

Mission, Jesus style calls those who know Him to be part of the search and rescue team - - called into action, helping all people to know the love that the Father has for them.

The Lord spoke these words to Paul:

I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'  ACTS 26:17

The Lord speaks these words to every believer:

Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. 1 CORINTHIANS 12:27

From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.  EPHESIANS 4:16

The members of the Lord's rescue team speak these words back to Him:

To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father--to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.  REVELATION 1:5-6

Each day, I'm learning to be a better
member of the Lord's rescue team.  

Will you join me?

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