Its midnight in Amsterdam at the City Shelter Hostel in the center of the red light district, and Cherob Opfer cant sleep. Could it be that I am anticipating my 12 hour flight tomorrow through Moscow to Ulaanbaatar Mongolia where I get the chance to make contact with unreached nomads at the moutain bases, wondering if I have enough clothes to keep warm, or too many clothes to fit into my new backpack, as I have given my other one to a friend in need. Perhaps my thoughts are racing as I ponder concentration camps and try to make sense of the hell that the Frank family went through hiding up in the Annex I explored today, renamed the Anne Frank museum. The words spoken by Otto Frank through a video recording, the Father of Anne Frank, and only surviving member of His family to make it out alive from the Nazi death camps. How could one live the rest of His life recalling the past, and the love and loss that he experienced? Grace and mercy on those who have been broken seemingly beyond repair. God please fix the broken hearts of your precious people, may we be willing to turn to you! Maybe its the fact that more people have died in North Korean concentration camps and in the Congo genicide going on right at this moment in Africa, in the last decade then the several million Jewish souls that passed into eternity 70 years ago.And I wonder, and I think, the Moravians used to sell themselves into slavery so that they could bring the Gospel to nations. Could a white American girl get herself into a concentration camp and survive long enough to bring the Gospel to a people who are headed for eternity but not ready for it? What price would I be willing to pay to bring the light of Truth to those who are desperate and dying and heading from an earthly Hell into an eternal one? Why is it them and not me? Life is not fair....but whoever said that Gods mercy every would be? What would God do with me if I said yes with absolutly no conditions, take me where no one else will go, take me where theyre hungry for truth, whatever the cost, let my life be what you want it to be. What if? Well, I pray to God that I find out. What is it to gain the whole world and forfeit your soul? Im more afraid of living ignorant and comfortable then I am of losing my life for the sake of another, for the sake of the One I love, and who loves me wholly and completely. Whoever has ears let them hear. All men die, but few men truly live, (Mel Gibson) He is no fool who gives what He cannot keep, to gain what He cannot lose (Jim Elliot) Take your American dream if you want it....you can have it. Give me Jesus, give me Jesus, give me Jesus. Maybe I cant sleep because of last night when I sat on the steps of the Salvation Army building and played my guitar to whoever would listen. I Believe that worship ushers in the Presance of God, so what better place to sit then in the center of the Red Light district? I was offered 5 Euro by a man dressed like a woman and I said I couldnt take it, I wasnt playing for money, but he said I was his friend, and told me to buy myself a coffee. No room for conversation, he had work to do, but I smiled, asked him his name, he smiled and told me, and then walked off in his stilletos into the cold rainy night. I spent an hour talking metaphysics and Gods love with another lost young man on his way looking for the kind of cannibis that he used to smoke that really cleared his mind. I prayed for him instead. Jesus doesnt cost a thing, and His effect is still with you morning by morning. I dont know if I will ever see him again, I dont know how that prayer and example affected his life. You know what? Im nothing special, Im just a broken clay vessel filled with the love of God, sharing the same love that God gives to me with a hungry, broken, lost, confused world. What every man desires is absolute, unfailing love, and there is only one place to find it. Sure you can buy the counterfiet for an hour, but you cant buy the real deal for a life time. It is freely given, but the road to genuine life is narrow and few find it. Thats all...we take what little we have, like 5 fishes and a few loaves of bread, entrust it into the hands of Jesus and He gives thanks to the Father, breaks it and feeds the multitude. Thats all....its so simple sometimes we miss it:) So Ill sign off, not sure when I will get access to the internet again, and I pray that somewhere, somehow in this world I have given you a little piece of wisdom, hope, and inspired you to love Him more and walk out your destiny. In Jesus name. God Bless ~Cherob Matt 6:33
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:33:23 +0000
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