The Road Least Taken…

Last Wednesday… we headed back to Rosario, Cavite to resume our regular weekly Team Revival Nights.  We didn’t hold one the previous Wednesday since it was Holy Week.

Well, I’m glad (and relieved) to see that a good amount of kids have started coming back to attend service.  Seems like the “body organ snatching syndicate” (for lack of a better name) have died down a bit.  But that doesn’t mean they aren’t around… they just probably wanted to lay low for the moment.

The syndicate have not been caught yet… but how could they if the authorities themselves are the ones who are first to ignore the cries of the helpless victims?  The police and government agencies have quickly dismissed the issue as rumors and make believe.

I have already delved on that issue “in depth” on one of my previous posts so I won’t go another round at it for now… my story is about the kids who have come back.

It was like a breath of fresh air… seeing the little children playing all around the Marian Hall before the start of service.  The noise that we were used to… the laughter and tiny happy shrieks of boys and girls all around the venue gave renewed hope to the dwellers of our community that love ever abounds and that the Lord always triumphs over evil.

We pray that the horrible incidents of the past weeks are now over and behind us.  And though some people may say that since our authorities have discounted these reports as nonsense… there is nothing we can do, I would be quick to disagree.

There is something we can do.  Pray.  True and effective prayer.  In fact, it is the only effective means of battling and overcoming every form of affliction and adversity.  It is something most people have taken for granted… a way of life that has now been degraded to some sort of ritual… a personal relationship with our Almighty God that has been traded for a life of uncertainty.

This is our wake up call.  God is our first resort… not our last.  If he isn’t first in your lives… then a reevaluation is in order.

Be like the kids in Rosario… learn from them… See their faith.  Feel their faith.

It is what brings them back to service… back to the Lord… again and again.  No matter what the cost…

…even their lives.

“The best place any Christian can ever be in is to be totally destitute and totally dependent upon God, and know it.”  - Alan Redpath