I know this is probably your gut response in the first place, but the sermon I heard last night really is pertinent. Dr. Schreiner was at Sojourn Community Church preaching on Romans 9. Dealing with not only God’s election but on worldwide suffering is hard. Essentially, there are two ways to ask these questions of God. One way is humble. The other way is rebellious. One way says, “God, I don’t understand this. But I trust that you are good. I TRUST you to run the world.” The other way says, “You don’t know what you’re doing. If this is really the God of the Bible, I want nothing to do with him. He is unjust and unfair.”

At the end of the day, we mourn for the toll that sin has taken on the world. We give and go and send others to reach those people with the Gospel, for that is their only eternal need. We pray and BEG God to show them mercy.

It may be telling to remind ourselves that not only are those people in such awful human conditions, but millions more will leave this temporal realm today and enter eternity without knowing Christ as Savior and will go to hell. It is only by mercy that ANY of us are saved.

The global problems of poverty and injustice ought to be fuel for us to share the Gospel with people in our office, in our classrooms, in our neighborhoods, in our apartment complexes. These people need the Gospel. These people need to repent and believe and surrender their lives to give and go and pray for God’s mercy to fall on orphaned children in Uganda.

So today: PRAY and share the Gospel in hopes that God might be gracious and merciful to a few more.

It’s His mercy all the way.

Charlie: Thanks for your thoughts bro! I’m looking forward to catching up this Wednesday!

Your blog: In the sermon I listened to this morning from Francis Chan, he said that in Uganda alone (I think — that part wasn’t clear), 43,000 children are orphaned every day, and 29,000 orphans die every day. Every day. Part of me fights God about that. “What can You teach me in 5 or 10 years that is worth so many wasted lives?”