The Government May Not Be Here, but God Is

We've been exploring for three days now, and the devastation leaves one utterly speechless. I never thought that I would ever see anything like this in our country; this is the closest thing I have ever seen to a war-zone... I could write pages about the political injustice and everything else which is hindering the re-builiding, but I won't. Instead I would rather talk about the people.

Romans 8:39
Neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The people we have met have all lost so much. Many lost every single earthly possession that they own except what they had on their back, but they still have the love of God. I have found it to be true, that when we understand what Jesus has done for us, then there is nothing which can separate us from His love. Not even a category 5 hurricane which strips one of everything they own... God is still loving. Mary lives in Mississippi, her house was directly under the eye of the hurricane, but she did not evacuate. She said she just prayed, she was never afraid, but just trusted in the Lord. People who never came to church before the storm, now come every week. Just like with Elijah, God may not have been in the wind, or the fire, but God was there in the silence which followed. God's love was there when nothing else was, and that is exactly what the people needed most at that time. In God's love there is hope. Those who put their hope in homes, jobs, and money, saw what can happen in the blink of an eye, but those who put their hope in the Lord, know that they are never alone. They know that there is something that God is preparing for them, something better... A day will come when God's people aren't reliant on the federal government, or a city that wants to destroy their neighborhood for good... God is here, God's love is here and that love is being shared between brothers and sisters of the Heavenly Father...

What can we learn from our time here? There is no way to prepare for a catastrophe, but we can learn to love one another before the storm. The storms will come... but if we have the love of God, and the love of one another... nothing can take our hope. I, like Mary, have decided that I won't be afraid of the rain, but will get through whatever life throws my way by trusting in the Lord...