Sunday, September 24,
2017 (fourth in a series)
Haiti Deaf Academy
Deuteronomy 31:6 and Hebrews 13-5
Joyce and Michael
Newsom
I often
subscribe to the belief that we, the American people, are the same as the
Israelites, God’s chosen people. Our ancestral pilgrims settled in a promised
land, a land flowing of milk and honey. Oh how evident it is that we have
forgotten from whence we came. But, you know what? These Haitian people, they
too are God’s chosen people. Maybe they have just not found their Moses yet nor
crossed through their Red Sea. Do you want to know something? These people are
strong and courageous!
A few days
ago our team arrived here on the heels of four ferocious hurricanes that passed
by this island also known as Hispaniola. It is as if God has said to these
people, I will not forsake you, my
children, you have enough on your hands now and I have some of my other children who need a wake-up call! I’m
not sure if Joyce and Mike intended it? A link exists that ties these two
pieces of scripture together across a millennium or more. Moses’ exhortation,
“Be strong and courageous.” is repeated by his successor (Joshua 1:9). In
Hebrews, the writer is reminding his audience - Jewish Christians- that the
covenant of Moses, carried forward by Joshua, has been superseded by the new
covenant of Christ Jesus. Our presence here is now about the Love of Christ.
Our mission
team’s humbly joyful interpreter/guides are mere boys content with what they
have. Gel, Achka, Benson and Jhon are the vines bearing
fruit that brings daily the new covenant Love of Christ to the poor. The chosen
people of Haiti know the Lord has said to them, “Never will I leave you.”
Yahweh, through all the storms of our
lives may we remember that nothing can separate us from your Love which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen
Bradford
Bosworth
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