Being Bombed

All over Sudan and South Sudan bombs are now falling, people are dying, hope is failing, and there is no future. Some days I run for cover, other days I stand and fight. Some days I just pray and hope. Let me be clear, the bombs I am fleeing and fighting are not those that are falling up north (google "Sudan news"). The bombs falling here in Wadupe will not kill my physical body. Eph 6:12. But the bombs of despair, confusion, division, and darkness are falling on us; they are devastating and they are killing this nation. 

Gaga, a young boy I am discipling and teaching to manage the base, walked with me to the main road to catch a ride to Yei. "You cannot walk this road at night," he said. "Wizards move here. The man who used to live here," he points to his left, "took his family away because they were disturbed by demons and bad dreams."....BOOM..victory for fear.

"Let the foreigners come and develop us,"...BOOM..victory for the sloth.

"We are poor and unable to develop ourselves," BOOM...victory for the liar.

"#(*#@#, where is the engineer!! I work and work to get the materials out here and the community doesn't want to come and work, then they come and the engineer doesn't show up! and who keeps standing on the toilet!"...BOOM...victory for anger.

After just under two months of being here: 2 violent suicides, 1 death from the war, 1 death from disease...BOOM..victory for the worst of them all.

We are doomed...I want to give up...honestly, I don't see how this is possible...

...but in the chaos there is a whisper of Truth and it says to us:

You can't kill the One greater than death. His Love cannot lose. Darkness will not overtake the Light. But the Truth will set us free. Bomb and bomb all you want, victory is already ours and we are just waiting for our Father the Champion. And you know He's coming. We may scatter for a moment like ants in the bush. We may fail and hide and some may be lost for a while. But we will reform the line, we will take up the cause again and again, and we will build this Kingdom until these silly bombs are nothing to us and we are one. Hold on to the Truth. Hold on to the Way. Hold on to Righteousness. Hold on to the Living God....He is and was and will be...

BOOM