Overwhelmed

As of the most recent report, 12,000 people in China are dead because of the massive earthquake that hit them this week.

22,000 people in Myanmar are dead from a cyclone.  Millions of others are homeless, and the dictatorship that sickeningly calls itself a government in Myanmar will not allow foreign aid into the country while the people starve in the streets.

I was discussing these events with someone I work with and his reponse to the death toll in Myanmar was; “Good.  That’s less mouths to feed.”

My heart is broken.  It is broken over the massive loss of human life.  These are image-bearers of God.  These are people that God loves, that He died for.  My heart is broken because of the attitudes like the one displayed by my coworker and I can’t help but wonder how many “Christians” in this country are thinking the same thing.

I feel so overwhelmed and I wonder:  What can the church do?  How should the church of Jesus Christ respond?

God grant us wisdom so that we can know Your heart and will and grant us the grace and power to carry it out.