The Path We Take

One of the many privileges that I have is that so many of you invite God’s Littlest Angels (and me) into your hearts, your minds and the deepest places where you struggle with the injustices of the world.   That is a privilege that I take very seriously and consider it an incredible honor to have so many of you do that.

We’ve talked recently about how there are many who are wrestling with priorities and how do they balance the life that they currently live (also known as the path full of first world problems) with the needs of so many in other places in the world – in particular the children in the world who have no one.   God makes it very clear that He wants us to take care of the orphans and the widows (James 1:27) but He doesn’t say exactly what that means for each of us.  It’s not always an easy path and many times it’s hard to see the road.

But just because it’s not easy doesn’t mean we shouldn’t follow it.   In many cases, we should go that way precisely because it’s a path that needs to be traveled but no one has traveled it before.   John McHoul from Heartline in Haiti wrote a thought provoking post about the Path we take.  I’ve copied part of it below, please read the entire

Join me in praying that God will make clear the path that He wants each of us to take and how He wants us to do our part in caring for the orphans of the world, particularly the orphans that are at God’s Littlest Angels.

Thanks for praying,

Tom

P.S. If you want to read some of the other posts about wrestling with our path, go to http://godslittlestangelsinhaiti.org/2012/02/one-foot/ and http://godslittlestangelsinhaiti.org/2012/02/rearrange-our-priorities/ and http://godslittlestangelsinhaiti.org/2012/02/a-pencil-in-the-hand-of-a-writing-god/ and http://godslittlestangelsinhaiti.org/2012/01/god-speaks-by-susan-westwood/.

THE PATH « Heartline Haiti Blog

I wonder about the path that I am on and the footprints being left behind. Will they last? Will they matter? Will they make a difference even after I have died.

I love the response of David Livingstone, the famed medical missionary and explorer, when asked by a missionary society if he had found a good road to where he was and if so there are others that want to come. Livingstone replied,

“If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.”

There are times when God will have us get off the path that others have cut and begin the job of cutting a new path that others will some day follow. It will be hard and there will be times of loneliness, and fear and times when you wish for the easier path that has already been cut. You simply follow that path and it takes you where it goes. When cutting a new path, the path goes where you go. And hopefully, you go where God leads.

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