I hope Jesus hurries.

I am sitting in a place called Kodok, Sudan - a 2 hour boat ride up the Nile River from a bigger place called Malakal. You probably can Google earth-it. More on the trip later but I was sitting with my team having devotions this evening and in response to a passage shared from Titus, our Area Coordinator, a wonderful Sudanese named Dr. Chol said "I hope Jesus hurries." This made me think.

What a statement! So many times I think that we (either aid workers or people wanting to help, in general) try to right all the wrongs in the world - try to fix or correct the injustices. We can't. We never will. Just when we make some progress in one part of the world, something horrific happens in another part. If it isn't hunger in Afghanistan, it's extreme flooding in Vietnam or rebellion in DRC.

Because we are a broken people - a broken society, we will never be able to fix it - we will never be able to rid the world of suffering. The only true relief we will have is in Jesus Christ. I'll patiently await him - not in fear but in awe and excitement. In the meantime, we can keep living each day like it's our last - work as hard as we can, persevere and hold strong in our Faith in Jesus Christ.