Unity Creates Strength

As I ponder answers I don't have to questions that are too big for me, I run into what Stephanie and Noah Joyner call the Haitian Contradiction.  I have found yet one more contradiction.  I was reading Steph Joyner's blog (nothing2bring.blogspot.com) about the recent cholera outbreak, and I decided to check out what wiki had to say about Haiti.  There were lots of great facts about Haiti and its history, but one thing really stood out to me, and that was Haiti's national motto - Unity Creates Strength.

There are so many things that we take for granted - clean drinking water, indoor plumbing, roofs that don't leak, soft beds with more than an abundance of blankets and pillows.  Yes we have a lot.  But there are so many who have so little.  It's like I hear their cries from across a vast ocean, but don't know exactly from which direction they cry out.  Then God pinpoints exactly where some of the cries are poured out - a land known as Haiti.  A land who has so little.  A land who hungers, not for food that perishes, but food that is eternal.  The unity that is found between God and man is the greatest way to bring strength to the weak, help to the helpless, hope to the hopeless.  What if we brought clean water to Haiti in the name of the Creator who can supply living water?

In the USA, we learned that we found our strength in uniting with one another despite our differences.  The gospel is the same.  How different, how sinful, and how human we are compared to the One, True God of the universe.  Yet he desires that we be one with him in Christ.  I don't care how many states unite, they are absolutely powerless compared to uniting with the God and Creator of all reality.

That is the irony of the Haitian national motto - Unity Creates Strength.  When will we answer their cries...their pleas for help?  When will we take the gospel to the desperate who are dying because they do not possess clean drinking water.  We water our flowers with clean drinking water, yet their babies die every day.  And what hope can there be apart from living water that gives them life everlasting?  Oh the pain of death apart from Christ!!  Unity creates strength, and unity with Christ produces eternal life!