My job allows me to travel quite a bit. I was traveling last weekend through a very interesting region. It is the southern region of a presently volatile country, there is a lot of internal squabbling going on right now, though it has yet to turn widely violent. I was driving down the road, headed to a very rural area to attend a church where the pastor recently has come under persecution for its orthodox beliefs by local religious authorities.
Along the rural, agricultural farmland the winding road took me by several fertilizer polluted holding ponds. Many of the local residents, wearing old clothes and looking quite haggard, were trying to catch fish out of those ponds. Poor housing, some in ruins with clothes still hanging out in the weather, dotted the landscape. In the cemeteries, many graves were adorned with the flags of the last rebel seperatist group to claim the area, still holding loyalty to that group rather than the present government. The area has been under intense drought over the past decade, worsening year by year, and many farmers have been driven out of business by bad weather, and government intervention. There are a lot of places in this world that need the Gospel.
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2 comments:
Yes, people do need the Lord and especially so in present day circumstances when so many things can be so "volatile" - be it political or natural - there is a need to pray for more to GO and carry out God's great Commission.
Yeah, I was driving through America...I just wanted to be clever and show how bad some regions of the south are, cemeteries dotted with rebel flags??? Yes it was a seperatist group...but we aren't fine with Mexicans who still wave their flag I guess.
The south is in bad shape, meth is tearing it up.
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