We Must Go

I don't know where to start a post like this. It feels like so much is welling up inside of me, that I want to so perfectly capture the stirring of my soul, but am afraid it will just jumble out so fast and mixed it up it will miss the passion I feel and look more like yesterdays meal. What I want to write about today, feels like what I want to write about always - what I want this blog to be about, what I want my life to be about. For me, this something is about loving others, the least of these, the orphans, the poor, the hungry, the needy, the war torn, the sick, the lepers.

I was so moved in church today. Marv's sermon was based on God calling Samuel. The story is 1 Samuel 3, if you want to read it. The sermon was a call for us to hear God's Word, but to hear in the sense that you can tell we hear because we are actually listening. I have been feeling, for so long now, a desire to be part of something bigger, something important. Part of some great fire sweeping across a group of people, maybe joining an organization or large movement. And so sometimes I just sit and wait...or fill up my time with T.V. and myself, and the computer, and

nothing

But today I thought, what if that is not what I need to wait for. Maybe I have all I need to wait for. I have God's call, I have ears to hear and now I need to be a person who listens. Maybe it is the deep burning of my heart causing small movements in my own hands and feet - and this, THIS will be the something bigger, the something more I am yearning for. Yes, I feel it!

This song by Tim Hughes was shared in church during the sermon, and I was so moved by it. Here are the words and following is a youtube video playing the song.

God of Justice, Saviour to all
Came to rescue the weak and the poor
Chose to serve and not be served

Jesus, You have called us
Freely we've received
Now freely we will give

We must go live to feed the hungry
Stand beside the broken
We must go
Stepping forward keep us from just singing
Move us into action
We must go

To act justly everyday
Loving mercy in everyway
Walking humbly before You God

You have shown us, what You require
Freely we've received
Now freely we will give

Fill us up and send us out
Fill us up and send us out
Fill us up and send us out Lord



What can I do? How can I start moving in the world around me? I don't know for sure yet. I have a friend that serves at the Rock - maybe I can start meeting the poor and go from there? I have another friend, an ordinary girl, who emailed world vision or a similar organization and said, I have an 8 month old and I take for granted that he has access to health services and I even complain a bit about it, and I realized - so many people in the world don't have protection against deadly diseases. What can I do? Now she is helping to organize and raise funds so that a village in India receives vaccines.

What can I do?

God says in Micah,
He has showed you, O man, what is good.
And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.

I will move forward in justice and mercy and humility and I will trust that God will use me. He has shown me what is good and I am ready to listen.
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  1. Aimee on January 19, 2009 at 12:50 AM

    "I have God's call, I have ears to hear and now I need to be a person who listens. Maybe it is the deep burning of my heart causing small movements in my own hands and feet - and this, THIS will be the something bigger, the something more I am yearning for."

    yes. yes.

    this is it. thank-you Claire. beautiful. you and your word. not yesterdays breakfast at all.

    I will make sure Lance reads this too.

    love, Aimee

      
  2. Tammy on January 19, 2009 at 5:59 AM

    Such a moving post girl! Love it! Lately I have so much clothing for my little girls it distrubs me! I can't even close their drawers. It made me realize how "rich" we are. By western standards we are far from rich, especially right now! I have been thinking of doing something...but i procrastinate. Thanks for the gentle nudge I need that!