I have struggled with this dilemma - that I have been brought here to Conima, Peru to share the love & Good News of Jesus Christ, but my heart feels no love for these people. When I was in Haiti, there grew a love inside me for those people from the first day, but here I have talked with the people, played with the children, and lived among them for over a week yet I feel nothing. I pray daily that God will give me His love for these people that I might see them through His eyes, but my feelings remain the same.
As I was reading through the book ¨Let the Nations be Glad¨, I came across a passage that approached the situation in a different light.
¨Have you every wondered what it feels like to have a love for the lost? This is a term we use as part of our Christian jargon. Many believers search their hearts in condemation, looking for the arrival of some feeling of benevolence that will propel them into bold evangelism. It will never happen. It is impossible to love ¨the lost¨. You can´t feel deeply for an abstraction of a concept. Yuo would find it impossible to love deeply an unfamiliar individual portrayed in a photograph, let alone a nation or a race or something as vague as ¨all lost people¨. Don´t wait for a feeling of love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your Heavenly Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated from Him, so take those first steps in evangelism because you love God. It is not primarily out of compassion for humanity that we share our faith or pray for the lost; it is first of all, love for God.¨
It is out of love for the Lord and a desire to see His name glorified that I am here. In obedience to His call out of love for my Savior, I have come to Peru to live out the comission to which He has called me. So my love for God should overwhelm any lack of feeling for the Aymaran people. My love for God shoud overflow so much so that my only desire is to see the Lord glorified and praised by all as He deserves.
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