In Their Faces, I See God

Recently, one of my friends, on facebook, posted an infuriating status:
"Just reading up on the Earthquake in Haiti, How many thousands of people killed... you have to wonder how many people went home to be with Jesus, and you're heart has to be agonizing for the thousands... thousands that didn't. We need to step up!"

This combination of ignorance and judgement breed an evil powerful enough to destroy mankind. The same evil that enables people to fly a plane into towers, to burn people at the stake, violently murder people, throw children off bridges; this evil, this evil, will be the end of us, all of us. We don't need to step up in preeching the Gospel, we need to step up in being the Love of God.

In the faces of His people, I see God. I see the purity of God in my students, the desire of God in my most passionate friends, the servitude of God in the hands of those in Haiti. I see God in the eyes of everyone, the conversations of all. I do not see God in judgemental facebook status', I do not see God in the Sunday morning crowd of mega churches, dressed in designer clothes and adorned in diamonds.

In a time so devastating, in a country that has experienced only small bouts of hope, it is not our duty to judge the eternity of those past. Those who have gone, and those who are still, are part of the greater us.

No one is in need of your ignorant judgement, we are in need of your genuine love. We are powerless in judging others. For evil to cease, we need to learn the stories of those who dance on this earth, embrace the differences that make us beautiful, and begin to fix ourselves.

My heart is agonizing for the ignorant, and the devastation rooted in their judgement.