Bringing Hope Through Jesus

When we mobilize children (or even adults) to pray and take a stand for children who are poor, sick, abandoned, exploited, or forced to fend for themselves, it is easy for our students to get overwhelmed by the enormity of the issues. Statistics first produce a “deer in the headlights” response. This is often followed by a kind of paralysis –a reaction stemming from pure human reasoning–”I can’t begin to make a dent in the problem so I won’t do anything.”

Any lessons we teach should include the element of hope. Yes, the problems are too big for us to solve, but God is not asking us to solve them on our own. God is inviting us to partner with him to change the way things are. How does this partnership work? God provides power and authority, we act in faith. When I first saw this video, it reminded me that God asks us to bring hurting children to him, the author of transformation. He will do the rest. Watch it and pass it on. A picture is worth a thousand words.