Africa Advent: Heaven’s Tears

I haven’t traveled much in Africa, but I’ve traveled enough to tell you that though these people radiate simplicity, happiness and beauty each tribe and culture apart from God is wicked and they’re on the road to eternal destruction.

Those words aren’t easily written, for they weigh heavily on my heart.

Don’t get me wrong. There’s many things the cultures and tribes get right. They give of themselves. They love with desperation and genuineness. They value time in people not money. They’re undeniably beautiful people because they reflect the Creator, but deep down wickedness eats at their soul.

Without Him there’s truly no life. No purpose. No true joy.

God saw that the “wickedness of man was great in the earth… And the LORD regretted that he made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.” (Genesis 6:12) God wasn’t indifferent about sin. He didn’t overlook the diseases that rotted our existence. He grieved.

“…On that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.” (Genesis 7:11) Heaven and all the earth grieved with Him.

The flood came wiping away the sin of the world and God grieved. The next time the flood would come it wouldn’t be His tears, but His own blood. He made sure there’d be no temporary fix, but an eternal hope.

*All photos by Heather K. Moss