WHAT CAN ONE MAN DO? -- Just a Minute for Monday 05-19-08

Good Morning it’s Monday…    

 

We still have the occasional buggy gremlins hanging around the site… but gradually, like cockroaches, we’re stamping them out. (I Hope.)

 

In the grand scope of things happening in the world, it would seem to me the deaths of thousands in China and Burma plus the tens of thousands more who are injured and homeless coupled with the absolutely incomprehensible refusal of the Myanmar government to allow relief efforts to assuage the needs of their people looms far larger on a scale of importance than the squabble over whether Obama specified pre-conditions before talking with terrorists; or any of a dozen other “issues” that occupy the media and the political periscope.

 

People are dead. Children are bleeding, dying needing help urgently and we are distracted by the noises coming from political platforms. I am not unaware of the importance of who gets to sit in the White House and explain why they were unable to keep the extravagant promises they made while on the campaign trail, but the picture that keeps flashing across my frontal lobe is one of Nero playing his fiddle while Rome burned. Are we not like a dimwitted group of inconsiderate, unconcerned and uninformed French elite who continued their parties while the guillotine and the French Republic collapsed and society disintegrated around them?

 

I saw TV pictures of pallets of water, food, temporary shelter all on Burmese tarmac waiting until *somebody* would let them begin to relieve the suffering. Yet we continue to pay far too much attention to words flying back and forth between foolish partisans. It’s appalling – in fact unreal. The scope of cheap, shoddy materials in collapsed school buildings in China which will fill hundreds of *children’s* graves is horrendous. Yet I hear hardly a murmur of outrage. The Marines, Airmen and medical people on the front lines see it and are aghast. We have apparently become inured. I’m simply amazed.

 

Today’s program is about one man… doing what he can.  Dr. Bob Jones, Sr. – I used to be his morning program’s recording engineer – used to say: “Remember boys and girls, in your community – you andGod make a majority.”  You can’t do everything – but you can do something. What you can do, you ought to do… and by God’s grace, resolve you will do.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

 

Jack

 

Below are today’s script, and a link to the audio track.

May the Lord bless us all with HIS guidance.

 

 

“JUST A MINUTE”

WHAT CAN ONE MAN DO?

Just A Minute – Terrible reports from the Far East due to storm, earthquake and government corruption continue to reach. The agony and needs of these people challenges belief. We’ve sought to encourage you to pray. So, may I share with you this report which came to me via a sister Christian broadcast organization which I pass to you for your prayer and concern.

Matthew 12:15 tells us as a great multitude followed Jesus,  "He healed them all." Its clear Jesus showed compassion for the spiritual as well as the physical needs of people. … The Lord touched the heart of a Korean listener to travel at his own expense and danger into earthquake ravaged China. He thought of ways he could help… he’s strong, he can help move debris – so he took blankets, clothing, bandages and literature telling people how they can come to call on the Lord. Claiming the promise in Philippians 4:13, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me..." He’s most likely in the country now. Let us pray for this brother, that The Father will multiply his efforts and glorify Jesus.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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