What a good and encouraging word! May the Lord strengthen your hands for this good work, and may God’s people there be steadfast, immovable, abounding in the work of the Lord. God bless you brother, and thanks for stopping by!

After the storm we clung hard to the Habakkuk passage. In fact, the week after the storm, with our buildings completely demolished we found the pulpit in the rubble, pulled it out of the mud and sat it where the church building used to sit. We found some metal folding chairs amidst the debris and constructed some makeshift pews and had church together in the mud under the blazing sun. In that first service I opened the scriptures to Habakkuk 3:17-19. Christ, our supreme treasure, stabilized us during those difficult days and continues to sustain us as we move forward for His glory. With every home in our community destroyed, I pray that our light affliction would call comfortable American believers away from the weak supports of material stability and to lean hard upon the splintered cross. As the hymn writer sang,

My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly trust in Jesus’ Name.

On Christ the solid Rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand;
All other ground is sinking sand.

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