Stability in the Middle of Chaos

 I could feel the rumbles of aftershocks as I lay in my two man tent.  Each rumble brought terror to Haitians wondering if it would be  a repeat of the massive earthquake they had just suffered.  I began reflecting on the tragedy of the earthquake and the devastation I observed on the trip in country. 

Ten minutes one after noon had basically wiped out twenty percent of the nation's houses and infrastructure. Thousands of buildings had been demolished and people perished without warning. People everywhere were living in improvised shelters outside of buildings with cracked walls for fear of collapse while they were inside. Roads were broken, sewage pipes broken and cracks in the aquifers had opened resulting in contamination of the ground water. We had been working in Haiti for eleven years training pastors and leaders, but I had ever seen conditions of hopelessness like this.

This trip had originally been planned as a water pump repair trip with another ministry specializing in wells and water purification, but had ended up being an emergency relief effort.  We had to fly into the Dominican republic and take buses to the capital of Port Au Prince.  All of the relief work was centered there. It had been the hardest hit and communication with the rest of the country was limited.  

I had not been able to communicate with the Haitian pastors for months because of a hurricane that devastated the island with flooding the previous fall. I had hoped this trip would allow me to make contact with them, but their ministry headquarters in the city of Leogone was about forty miles beyond the base camp. The first two teams were restricted to the center of the affected area in Port Au Prince.  I prayed and asked the Lord to make a way to contact our host ministry to learn the condition of the pastors in the villages. 

The Lord's answer came swiftly.  Our team was being reassigned to the new base camp in the city of Leogone. One of the leaders at the new base camp had already met Pastor Joel, our ministry host and had scheduled a meeting with him in a couple of days.  Our first scout trip to an orphanage the water ministry had worked with went that right by the ministry headquarters and orphanage we worked with.  While we were evaluating the condition of the target ministry, the associate minister of our work showed up looking for water.  We hadn't been able to connect for months so this surprise meeting was a time of great joy.  

As I lay there, I realized it was Sunday was the third day in country.  I woke up that morning to the cry of an orphaned baby being cared for by people in the village.  The church at the bottom of the hill had been severely damage, but the congregation was meeting outside with the pastor preaching from the top of a wall surrounding the property.  The steam flowing next to the property was polluted, but people wanted to be baptized so we got to watch them come alive in the middle of the steam.  Hope and faith were thriving in the middle of unimaginable tragedy.  

It was certainly a true picture of the unstoppable nature of God represented in Issiah 59: 19 "When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him and put him to flight [for He will come like a rushing stream which the breath of the Lord drives]." -AMPC

When you see the world in chaos around you and enemy seems to be overwhelmingly winning, look to the Lord, the creator of heaven and earth for his help.  If you know Jesus as your savior, you can call on him and he will give you stability in the middle of your struggle or situation.

If you don't know Jesus as your savior, you can call on him and ask him to save you and give you the peace and stability you long for.

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