Isaiah 49:18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.

Hurricane Maria ran the length of Puerto Rico leaving the island absolutely powerless to help itself. The lives of everyone on that island has been changed. No one is untouched by the destruction.

“What do you need?” I ask. The answer is obvious, all you have to do is look around and know the answer is everything. But I ask what do you need because for the individual has their own perception of what they need the most. We are not here to tell people what they need, we are here to give them what they need most even if they do not know it.

Love.

If you truly love the lost, you don’t tell them what they need. You love them by speaking to their fears, anxieties, loneliness, and anything that they perceive as a need in the rubble of a life destroyed. We need to see beyond the devastation and speak to that part of a lost person that cries out the most.

The hurricane of a life destroyed is a metaphor for seeing a life ready to surrender to God. It can be found anywhere at any time and the signs are not always the wreckage of a home. It is discovered in a heart that has been exposed and laid bare. That can only be seen in close personal contact by asking, what do you need.

I opened with this passage from Isaiah for this one reason, we are the bride of Christ. We are the love of Christ in a lost and lonely world. We are more than the hands and feet, we have His heart.