People need the Lord

Again I borrow from Steve Green. Borrowing from Leon Schuster just wont be the same.

Everyday they pass me by,
I can see it in their eyes.
Empty people filled with care,
Headed who knows where?

On they go through private pain,
Living fear to fear.
Laughter hides their silent cries,
Only Jesus hears.

People need the Lord, people need the Lord.
At the end of broken dreams, He’s the open door.
People need the Lord, people need the Lord.
When will we realize, people need the Lord?

We are called to take His light
To a world where wrong seems right.
What could be too great a cost
For sharing Life with one who’s lost?

Through His love our hearts can feel
All the grief they bear.
They must hear the Words of Life
Only we can share.

People need the Lord, people need the Lord
At the end of broken dreams, He’s the open door.
People need the Lord, people need the Lord.
When will we realize that we must give our lives,
For people need the Lord.

People need the Lord.

I am really sad this evening. A friend decided to be angry with me. I do not understand the reason.

Did I do something wrong OR Didn’t I do something? Did I say something OR Didn’t I say something.

X, my friend, was helping me with some translation work. I am preparing a course on Inter-Cultural communication to be presented in April. While X came to fetch some papers Y and Z my new Malagasy teachers were here. We were discussing times, rates, etc. Unbeknown to me there is some history between X and Z. Now the nuclear fallout is hitting me.

Another friend, AA, I seem to be running out of letters, is having an affair with a married man. It seems as if she believes that being somebody’s plaything is all she is good enough for..

Yesterday whe found some marijuana (dagga) seeds here on the college property. The property is 22 hectare and not fenced in. We have a problem with trespassers.

I see that more than 3500 people lost their jobs just in the Analamanga region because of the political crisis here.

I am sad and hurt.

And I realize that I am one of the people who needs the Lord. When will I learn to trust Him with my probems, instead of solving it on my own? When will I lean to care more about others real problems than my petty inconveniences?

In my course on Inter-cultural communication, one of the basic tenets is: Ideas have consequences. That is the way I think determines my life. And this is not just mere positive thinking. See Proverbs 4:23

When wil I stop thinking that: I can do it! I am self-sufficient!

When will I live from the realisation that: I am crucified with Christ therefore I no longer live Jesus Christ now lives in me, and He is the Boss. Not me!