The world is still waiting!

      Who can watch the suffering of Africa as AIDS beats its death drums there and not be moved? Who can see the film clips of orphans fending for themselves and not be angry? Who can see the rampages of hurricanes or tsumanis or earthquakes and not be moved to find a way to end such suffering?

      But what can one person do?

      Even Christians must be shaking their heads in discouragement. Having seen revivals and movements and projects and ideas over the past two decades raise the banner of Christ to high and visible places, we might have expected those religious triumphs to bring social dividends, too.

      And yet, in spite of all of this movement of God in and among us, children live motherless and die hungry; sin runs as rampant as ever; and even nature seems bent on destruction, waging war on the innocent with earthquakes, tsunamis and famine.

      But we ask again, "What can one person do?

      The answer is nothing...or everything.

      Unless...or If...

     ...we find one person or persons willing to take up the challenge Moody heard from Varley.

      They will need to understand good intentions aren't enough. First they must let Christ conquer the sin that subdues every human-indeed which is the very cause of the suffering world in the first place-before they can conquer hunger and AIDS and homelessness. If fragile humans can create the dwarf wheat that rescued India, the vaccine that ended polio, or the charcoal straw that promises so much hope to those without clean water, imagine what God will do "with and for and through and in and by" one or more fully consecrated to Him!

      Think you're too jaded already to qualify? Jesus can and will turn the tables on that kind of thinking because "with God all things are possible."

      Who will hear the echo of Varley and Moody and beg God to accept them as "living sacrifices" (Romans 12:1)? Who longs to partner with God to end AIDS or river blindness; who is willing to step up with today's version of the majesty of the Marshall Plan to give nations economic hope so the people of those nations have time to pick themselves up off the ground?

       And while history shows that it's usually the young among us who refuse to believe "it can't be done" and go out and do it, wouldn't it be marvelous if God taught some of us old dogs new tricks? If He moved in and through us with our experience and wisdom and gifts.

      Could it be possible to see a river of "ones" from the body of Christ working shoulder to shoulder in a harvest of hope.

      Let us shed our skins of discouraged disbelief; let us bring back the joy of that moment when we surrendered to the grace of Jesus Christ-when the hope we found in Him made anything seem possible...because in Christ, anything still is possible. Who will answer Varley's call?

      What about you? What about me?