There is a brief line in the first chapter of Mark that sums up what we are all doing, even if we are not aware of it.
Peter and the others went looking for Jesus when he had slipped away to a quiet place to pray. When they finally found him, Peter uttered a line that resonates in all our hearts. Probably with exasperation, he declared “everyone is looking for you!” (Mark 1:37)
Indeed they are, then and still. Everyone IS looking for Jesus, and there are no exceptions.
Every day the past two months has been totally caught up in looking for FUEL, in any form, at any cost, in any amount. Everyone is looking for it continually, gas, diesel, propane, and when it is found, everyone starts running towards the source with buckets and bottles and jugs in hand, risking safety, paying great prices and waiting long hours and even days for it. But fuel is not actually what Haiti is looking for.
Even those who insist they are not looking for Jesus or that He is the last one they would ever seek, are looking for Him.
Yes, Lord Jesus, everyone is looking for You, with a yearning and longing that is infinite. The world cannot satisfy this searching, and our nature alone cannot give us what it does not have to give.
Emmaus may not be able to supply much of what Haiti is looking for right now, peace or fuel or food or open schools or political stability.
But what we DO have, we give freely... believing with our whole hearts that what everyone is truly looking for, what is truly needed, we carry in abundance.
Pray for our staff and students as they seek to actively overflow Jesus at every turn, always, and especially today. Pray for every believer in Haiti today who has a responsibility to help people find The Close One. Pray for Emmaus as the day forces us to work 10 times harder simply to continue doing what we have always done...raise up Christ-like leaders for the transformation of Haiti, one seeker at a time.
Monday
Last week, our visiting team to Emmaus spent some time praying for people in our village. As the situation in Haiti continues to be far too threatening for schools to open, they put their hands on a few precious children—a few in a million—and prayed for their bodies, minds, and spirits as they wait.
The children of our staff at Emmaus are sitting at home, waiting for schooling long ago paid for. The children of our village are sitting at home, waiting for badly needed education. The children of our country are sitting at home, waiting eagerly to push forward.
Reach out your hands today in prayer, letting them fall on the children around us. And if Haiti is too far away for your hands, remember that they are in His...and pray all the same, as if these children were your own.
Believers are not waiting for people’s patchy, fleeting peace, nor for the proclamations of the powerful, nor for governments or for gangs or for any hope that man might offer, for there seems to be none...not even to muster up for our waiting children.
We wait on Him, believing without seeing that this is an even better place than school. We wait on Him.
Sunday
The last few days have held a precious pocket of peace for Haiti, with warnings and threats of frustration and fear for the near future.
Pray with us for words of man to fail, for walls of fear to crumble, for bonds of darkness to break, for attempts of evil to be pitiful...for works of God to be plentiful, for His Word to ring powerful, for HIS peace to be profound, for HIS plans, instead, to be apparent.
Pray with us for these miracles. We watch, by faith, for what we cannot yet see...with hope.
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