Why start the 30 days of Justice?
I started this campaign to create awareness on our planet. The greatest “no-no” of our generation is apathy. Just because someone or something is across the other side of the world, we have a great tendency to say “therefore I do not care”. The saying that goes “Out of sight, out of mind”, well that would be an apt thing to describe us. I fell prey to this mentality too, and I could not stand it. I cannot stand it, so I started this. I woke up one morning and the A21 campaign brochure was on my bedroom floor, it must have fallen out from my pile of paper stuff that I collected from the Hillsong Conference 2010. Prior to that moment, I was going through a lot of things, mostly to do with my future direction. And like most human beings, I got distracted by the “doing”. I started to be burnt out and inundated by the monstrosity of difficulties that were plaguing me – from job search to family, church to my own doubt – too many things were cooking at the same time and I was forgetting why I was doing what I was doing!
I lost sight of my vision, I lost hope of my future, I was, for the first time in my life, un-passionate about missions!
Then the still, small voice that protected me and guided me since my childhood days came – God spoke. I felt Him encourage me to start this 30 days of Justice. And silly me, I thought I would educate you, to tell you about what I know about this world. But God works in wonderful ways and throughout this journey, even though, at this point of me writing this, I am not even half way through, I have already learned what I DO NOT know. God started to preach to me in my moments of preparing each post. I started to weep and I started to pray! Before I knew it, the passion rose within again. The importance of nurturing the passion within is something to be grasped.
Oswald Chambers inspired me in his book My utmost for His Highest in the entry for March 11th (click on the link for the post). Some of the things written really stood out to me like these:
“The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.”
“Though it tarry, wait for it. We cannot attain to a vision, we must live in the inspiration of it until it accomplishes itself.”
“It is essential to practise the walk of the feet in the light of the vision.”
With that, I leave you to explore this page and PLEASE DO… Click on the links to all the posts and have a read of some of the important international aid frameworks
You can join me and the rest of the world in prayer.
30 Days of Justice – Posts
The First 1/3
- Day 1 – Human Trafficking
- Day 2 – Child Health
- Day 3 – Water
- Day 4 – Obstetric Fistulas
- Day 5 – The (RED) Idea
- Day 6 – Mercy Ships
- Day 7 – YWAM Ships
- Day 8 – Child Soldiers
- Day 9 – Child Soldiers: Watoto Project Gulu
- Day 10 – Orphans
Focus on Asia – 10 Days of Prayer
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