Turkey, Dublin, Turkey

So this weekend i went down to good old Dublin Georgia and did a SWAT weekend.  I arrived in Athens Friday night to rendezvous with the Delta Force so we could all drive down together and i had some good old SWAT Turkey Day leftovers.

Then i went to Dublin (Story may come in a later blog)

So after an interesting and pretty eye opening weekend i dropped off the Delta Force back in Athens and went to Jon's house to rest and fill up on some good nourishment of leftovers.  So i got myself a plate of turkey and the best something in the world (i think stuffing) and went down stairs to watch a movie.

The movie had Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, and everyones favorite from the show The Office, Rainn Wilson.  This movie was called Sahara and it was made in 2005 and it was actually pretty good. Any ways there came a part where the water was being poisoned and one of the bad guys realizes that, grows a conscience and tries to get out because he thinks he will get called out for it by the African Government and peoples.  Well his partner, the other bad guy tells him that he isn't going to pull out of it and who cares that the water is being poisoned and Africa is slowly dying because... are you ready for this...

"No body cares about Africa"

In hearing that line in the movie my heart broke, because sure, it was just a line in a movie but how true of a line was that.  No body really cares about Africa.  Sure there is Invisible children and the UN trying to help, but in a world of well over 6 billion people we just don't care about Africa.  We just don't care about India, Brazil, Moldova, China, Korea, New Zealand, Alaska, Russia... the list goes on of all that we don't care about.  We are called to fight these evils.

"For we do not wrestle against flsh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places."  Ephesians 6: 12 ESV

And the best part about this is we are supposed to do this with power and authority, with a fierceness that we, the body of Christ, won't lose.

"And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."  Matthew 16:18 ESV

We are called to fight not against people, but against disease, hate, sins, pain, hurt... and this list goes on as well too.  

In hearing nobody cares about Africa my heart broke, but that means nothing if i don't take up my calling and fight the devil and his demons.  So help me in this cause, i am going to find out what i can do here and abroad, and i want to encourage you to find out how to break this crutch, this gate of not caring, and storm into hell and break the darkness that surrounds peoples lives.