What would you do without Jesus?

After recently moving into another home, The Surge has come to meet some very kind people who live nearby. We have met a man who lives alone and has for quite some time. He is a bit secretive about what he does, but seems to be very interested in our household. One day we invited him to our home just to chat and he expressed that he could hear a guitar playing and even our laughter through the windows at times. He told my Mother that it has all become “honey to his ears.”

We have had conversations with many of the neighborhood kids who have come to inquire about whether #1. We have any other children for them to play with and #2. If we have “all those guitars because we are a girl band.” Our curious little neighbors couldn’t be more adorable; they have even decided that as soon as our house is ready, they should most definitely be invited to come and play.

A teenage girl, living right beside us, has Ovarian cancer. She is only thirteen and her family is in the midst of keeping things together as best they can.

We have talked with them a bit and of course have been praying for that beautiful girl nonstop since moving in…

It has become more and more evident why God has brought us here, as we meet with those around us and hear their stories.

These people don’t have the joy we have, but want it. These people don’t know that there is hope to be found, but they need it.

They have no idea that there is Someone so great, so loving, and so close to them, they could reach out and touch Him if they only believed.

The precious people we meet every day, are not numbers to God. They have a face. They have a heart. And Jesus wants to do something important with their lives.

It really is up to you and to me to make sure that they, at very least, hear of Our God’s invitation to love on them. To comfort them. To be their Help and their Strength.

That is our purpose, our distinction as believers.

If we are not transforming the darkness into more and more light, we are automatically allowing our own light to be dimmed. If we are not making a change in the world for good, the world will make a change in us.

There is so much sadness in the eyes of those who don’t know Jesus, if you take the time to look. But it’s the little things, that make the biggest difference.

It’s your consistency in inviting that neighbor to coffee, that smile you give, every time you see your mail man. It’s the cookies you leave on the doorstep of the man who lives alone.

It’s the little things that matter most. And then, one day, your kindness may just break through someone’s sadness and heaven will rejoice as one more is invited into the Kingdom of God.

Catch the Wave,
Victoria