Angola
New York Times: African Crucible
I have recently read this article in the New York Times about the horrors some children have to go through in Angola (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/world/africa/15witches.html?ex=1352782800&en=6a6aec7a1b5f2977&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss ).
I cant believe how broken we are. How far we have run from the Father. Surly, Surly He will see how the wickedness of man is great and our every intent and thought is on evil continuously. Surly He shall see how depraved we are, how enslaved we are, and set us free. Will we ever taste freedom?
What sort of generation buys clothes and pampers dogs but murders their children in the womb? What sort of generation worships celebrity and every hedonistic desire for sex, pleasure and vain-glory yet ignores that a father pumped battery acid into his son’s stomach for fear that the son was a witch?
What sort of wickedness dwells in us that we would see the Creator displayed by the heavens and all of creation yet we worship the corrupt instead of the incorruptible God? How long until the Lord King opens the seals and pours out judgment on this earth?
When, Oh Holy God will You return? You have set us free from our bondage by the death of Your Son! You have set us free and now we can bow and pay fealty to You instead of the darkness! Why do we commit such atrocities against Your Holiness?
Forgive us Lord King, forgive your people, and spare us a little longer so that we may wake up from our stupor of nightmares and apathy! Let us see Your face and call upon the name of the Father to love on the nations, lost in culture and sin! Embolden your people and send us out so that we may seek Your will and bring glory to Your name!
Father forgive us.
