Just some early morning thoughts from me to you…
And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.”
Isaiah 6: 8 (ESV)“Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each other.”
John 13: 34-35 (The Message)“For God called you to do good, even if it means suffering, just as Christ suffered for you. He is your example, and you must follow in his steps.”
I Peter 2: 21 (NLT)
I remember her answer clearly.
The question she was asked suggested that sharing Christ with a homeless person meant taking them to a nearby church.
And Becky Pippert, author of the book “Out of the Salt-Shaker & Into the World,” emphatically responded by saying that if she came upon that person, in that situation, she would ask them to go and share a pizza with her.
Her call was to touch the life in front of her for good, beginning by meeting the need right in front of her, then walking with them as she continued to feel called.
A dear friend in the sports world, emailed me a few years ago, asking this short and simple question of me— “Do you think the world is broken?”
Some of the comments below, are from the longer answer I shared with my friend—
“When I hear of one child or adult trafficked—yes, I think the world is broken. The truth is there are tens of millions trafficked around the world.
If one child is abused in any way, or goes to bed hungry—yes, I think the world is broken. And there are millions, in this country alone, who carry those scars.
As has been learned, 26,000 children in the world will die today of starvation or a preventable disease. Every day. 26,000. Yes—broken.
With hundreds of thousands of people, homeless and lining the sidewalks and streets in cities around our nation, or our mentally ill left suffering without the help or hope they need—yes, broken…
But broken things are always before us—and broken things are there to be fixed.
And we have the God-given calling on our lives, and the freedom, to choose—free will—to do good in and with our lives.
And I believe that my God calls me, and all of us, to fix the broken world, with Him.
To have an impact for good in the world around us…
It is why Martin Luther King, Jr. did all he could do, non-violently, but with a Godly determination, and shared these worthy reminders for us to live by—
‘He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.’
And also, this— ‘Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter…’”
There was more to my answer and our follow-up.
But the brokenness of our world is why a twenty-nine-year-old stockbroker in Great Britain by the name of Nicholas Winton did what he did in 1938 to save 669 Jewish children in Czechoslovakia.
While he was there on a ski vacation, and seeing that the Nazi’s already occupied parts of Czechoslovakia, while preparing to take over the rest, he formed a one-person committee—himself—to begin to remove the children from Czechoslovakia, one-by-one, before they would be gathered for extermination at a concentration camp, along with their parents.
And his response to the call he felt—to save those children—was not known by the world until fifty years later. (look below to watch the brief CBS recap of his mission).
Nicholas Winton felt called of God to go.
And like Isaiah, he answered the call—and as a result, 669 children were saved.
Children then forever a part of “his” family in the thousands, including grandchildren, great-grandchildren, spouses, and more, all also now having an impact themselves for good, answering their own call on their lives—to fix a broken world.
We are called to go—now and always. With God. For good.
To help Him fix a broken world.
What will be our answer to His call?
In His Name–Scott
You will be moved to tears as you learn of the valor and humility of Sir Nicholas Winton, answering the call of God on his life to fix a broken world by saving all the children he could.
