The roads near our house in Haiti have gotten noticeably worse since we left six months ago. The summer rains have taken their toll. At a key intersection near our house there is a police check point where during the day and most of the night there are 2-3 policemen. While we were away rain water carved a deep grove across this intersection and when hurricane Isaac hit, it became a gully deep enough to make 4WD vehicles scrap bottom.
I got mad as I realized that this started as a small trickle across the road but eventually the water bore it’s way down and ate away the road until it became a big problem. Perhaps if someone had notified the Haitian street department that there was a problem right away, this might not have become so bad. As they say: “a stitch in time saves nine”. And I got mad that there was going to be a traffic jam on Monday morning as cars would have to navigate across this “mini grand canyon”.
So I stopped and took some old tires from the side of the road and started to do what I could to solve the problem. Then a Haitian neighbor showed up with a shovel and we started working together. Another man helped as well and after 30 minutes we had filled one hole.
I counted my blister as a badge of hard work, and the dirt and sweat as my work out that day.
The next morning when Carol and I passed by at 7 AM, I saw that most of our work had been washed away. But by 9 AM the “canyon” had been filled with packed dirt which at least made it passable.
So maybe God used me as a catalyst to get the whole fixed!
In Psalm 90:9, we read that God gets angry about our sin. Thank God we have a Savior to save us from God’s wrath! Let’s use our anger to motivate us to turn to Christ for forgiveness and ask him to turn our anger into loving action.
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