Jehovah-Jireh

A woman came and spoke in chapel yesterday who grew up in Rwanda and made it through the Rwandan genocide. Her stories from the genocide were heartbreaking. People being killed viciously for no reason and the reality of terror in everyday life. Her family was rich so they were able to pay people off for a while, but when they ran out of money the fled to the congo where they were refugees. In congo she met her husband and they started a family together but while she was pregnant with her second child the government started threatening her husband and he had to flee. Not knowing where he went she waited until she couldn't wait any longer and she set out to find him herself. She traveled on foot through Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe searching for her husband. She finally arrived in South Africa after hearing there were a lot of Congolese in Pietermaritzburg and there she finally found him. And her story didn't get any easier after that- she had her second child then had to get a difficult job walking around the city selling coffee and baked goods because her husband couldn't find work. But after she would detail some struggle she would say, "but Christ was with me."
The theme of her life has been relying on the providence of God and not just relying on it, but reveling in it. She has seen and lived harder things then i could ever imagine and she has had nothing, but she has had everything because she has loved and relied on Jehovah-Jireh- God the provider.


"Sing to the LORD, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world."
Isaiah 12:5