I chose to extend my term in South Sudan two weeks so that I could travel to our Field Base in Maban, to play my guitar for praise and worship as part of a "Spiritual Renewal" initiative. With working in a tough environment it is very easy to run ourselves down physically, emotionally, and especially spiritually. So I opted to go and help by sharing the gift God blessed me with I traveled with a great guy named Spencer who led devotions and counseling. I was blessed by the trip with spiritual renewal of my own, it was good time spent with God and his word. I posted these pictures to Facebook they can be found by clicking on the previous post. On a different note while I was there I got to visit the Jamam refugee camp, it was heart-breaking. More than 40,000 people are living there.....that's right 40,000 people. They are struggling because they don't have enough water or food, and rainy season will just make things worse. I sincerely urge you to pray for them and get the word out because if the world stands idly by as it has done many times before than this will be a major disaster. I understand that there is always a disaster happening somewhere in the world and that there will always be poor mouths to feed in Africa, but if people put half the effort that they did into arguing about Amendment 1, think of what could be accomplished. I am not trying to belittle the scope of that argument, I am simply trying to underline the fact that if people could unite and love thy neighbor instead of arguing and condemning than so much could be accomplished.
Matthew 25: 31-46
The Judgment
31 “But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne.32 All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; 33 and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left.
34 “Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35 For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; 36 naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.’ 37 Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink? 38 And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You? 39 When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ 40 The King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, eventhe least of them, you did it to Me.’
41 “Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘ Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels; 42 for I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me nothing to drink; 43 I was a stranger, and you did not invite Me in; naked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me.’ 44 Then they themselves also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not [a]take care of You?’ 45 Then He will answer them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ 46 These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
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