Final thoughts

Sunrise on the Masai Mara

The need is great both physically and spiritually. But I’ve heard it said that you cannot minister to a man’s Spirit until you have first ministered to his body. I believe that to be true to a large degree. One often cannot hear the whisper of the Spirit over the loud demanding screams of the physical realm. When I ask God to bless the people of Kenya, I ask Him to perfectly fulfill their needs in abundance, but I have trouble asking Him bless them by giving them all the money they need, because I see, from my own experience that with money comes a whole other set of material problems that they are not encumbered with as of yet. Money/materialism like poverty screams at us and takes our attention away from the quite leading of the Holy Spirit. If you ask me it is just two extremes that our Enemy uses for the same ends; that is to keep us from living the Spirit-filled life God intended for us to live.

I am also reminded of the proverb, “If you give a man a fish he will eat
today, if you teach him to fish he will eat everyday.” sometimes just giving
money is hurtful rather than helpful (case in point our welfare system which
causes people to look for a free handout rather than looking for how they
can help their selves. And the people who take the handout are subsequently
owned by those whom they are dependant upon. Slaves to our corrupt government. Ok I’ll stop there. I don’t feel like stepping on anyone’s toes.)

There is a balance between dependence on God which brings freedom and
dependence on Man which brings enslavement. I think how often God works in
our lives through our need or lack to bring us closer to him. It grows dependence
on Him as we are unable to meet our needs and look to Him to meet them. But
at the same time that need and lack can be misused for evil purposes
creating a dependency on man which only brings suffering and enslavement.
Where is the balance between dependence for our daily needs and the
Independency of Freedom? So much of life seems to hang in a delicate balance
between extremes. And it is so easy to knock it off balance. But even there
God is still God.

I’m sorry for ranting on and on. I sometimes get stuck in the deeper
questions and miss the practical solutions. The physical/financial need is
real. God Does call us to help our brothers in need. And God does work
through us to meet the needs of others. The important thing for us to do is
to be sensitive to how God is individually calling us to help and act in our
community and in the world, and then to be obedient to that call with
abandonment. In order to do this we must lose our in dependency which is
always inadequate for the task God calls us too and become dependent on His
Power and Might. Pretty awesome!

If you would like to find out how you can sponsor a child at The Methodist Mission School in Nakuru through Kenya Partners please ask me or check out there website. http://www.kenya-partners.org.

Please pray for the Church in Kenya, and around the world including the
Church in America; For God’s Spirit to be poured out upon us and for our
hearts to be willing vessels for the Holy Spirit to set us a blaze! And seek God with all your heart, mind and strength. It is then that we will see The Church move in the power and freedom it was destined for and will bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners. Amen!