“Jesus is all we need…”

Is Jesus all we need… If you believe in Him…the answer is easy…or is it?

If every thing you had is taken away from you….is Jesus all you need?
If you can’t go on…is Jesus all you need?
If there is nowhere to go…is Jesus all we need?

My reason for asking this:

I am part of a youth ministry that is expanding to a new African county – Mozambique – which is a beautiful country with a history of oppression, war, poverty, yearly natural disasters like floods, drought, hurricanes, thousands and thousands of orphans, diseases like Malaria, Cholera and AIDS are taking the lives of thousands of people yearly leaving more orphans and poverty struck people.

I’ve been there for the past 3 months, mainly in the capital – Maputo – which is fast growing city due to international investors that invest in businesses and beach side property. You see a lot of rich people, which is mainly tourists, and also the very poor that is trying to make a living or begging in the streets.

I got the privilege to go to a village more inland the past week where there are no investors, tourists or anybody that boost their economy, just the people living there and a few missionaries and non Christians trying to help the community in growing gardens with fruits and vegetables so they can have some kind of nutritious food and even maybe selling some of it to raise an income in the future. I’m explaining this so you can have a picture… very little food, little African reed houses, 7 and 8 year olds raising their little 2 year old orphan siblings… you kind of get the picture – we all see the ads or documentaries on tv…

So, I always tried to think about all my blessing whenever I went through a difficult time. I would think: “At least I have clothes to wear, food to eat, loving parents, a car, a work”, you know all the things we have. And even to people who doesn’t believe in Jesus, we would say that Jesus loves them, He died for our sins, and even with all our unbelief and doubts in Him He still bless us with health, food and all the stuff we take for granted – That is God providing… for you, for me, for everyone!

This is the problem I ran myself into – I had to give little bible lessons to this orphan children in the village, some not orphans but living also the same kind of life as those around them. Trying to explain to them – they spoke a different language so I had a narrator – that Jesus loves them… Now you might think: “Well the language thing is a problem but that little obstacle was overcome by the narrator…Yes, but standing there telling children who have no parents, go to sleep hungry more often than not, have AIDS, wearing the same clothes every day, being 4 or 5 years old and have to get up at 5 in the morning to walk with their siblings to a well to go and get water, living in nothing more than a one room reed house… that Jesus loves them, and care about them…and that God is a God that provides for His children…

That was not a Sunday school class where you tell the children to count their blessing and wasting water en food is not nice because there are children in Africa who doesn’t have any....THAT WAS THE CHILDREN IN AFRICA!!!
What struck me was that this children was not just physically hungry, but they were hungry for love and Jesus is love. And that is the only thing that I could give them.

That experience made me think, how Jesus’ love is all we need – practically – in everyday life… Would those children believe that a God really, really loves them in the midst of all their struggles?

My prayer is that the Holy Spirit could show them what I struggled to do. That He worked through me in my weakness.

I would love to hear your thoughts on ways to share Jesus with children who has nothing, who doesn’t know love, who doesn’t live in our blessed lives and no comparisons that we use can be given to them.

“Jesus, thank You for Your love, and even if we don’t understand it, we know that Your love is all we need-”