A shoe repair man is bullied to sleep by the awful heat of a Cambodian mid-afternoon. 30 years ago a more serious stupor was forced onto the Cambodian people by the genocide of half their population. Today as we preach to a few hundred gathered in the border town of Poipet, we preach to persuade them back to life. "God is good, let there be no doubt, He is absolutely good. No matter what you have experienced, your oppression and degradation was not God's plan." The Cambodian people, like you and I, can take one of two approaches to recovery: 1) "Why did this happen and when are You going to fix it?" or 2) "I will annihilate the unbelief I have so naturally embraced and replace my contrary experiences with the power of Your promises."
Group #1 will continue to learn line upon line "that they might go and fall backward, and be broken and snared and caught." (Isaiah 28:13) while group #2 will ask, believe and receive. (Matthew 21:22).
The faces in the crowded conference venue are like the lights in the Poipet market, some are turned on, others remain off. Not all will grasp the Word and rise up but if we can turn the tide away from despondency and toward the goodness of God, this nation will once again live.
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