This morning I was watching the news from earthquake devastated Haiti. They were interviewing the leader of a Christian mission team waiting to get on a military transport or something to get home. I thought to myself, “You’re on a missions trip! Go do some mission work and help dig out somebody”. I understand the team cannot be cared for without water, but it just seemed a little out of place to want to run away.

Haiti seems to go from one crisis to another. This morning Pat Robertson was the big talk as they showed him saying that the earthquake was the fault of the Haitians. He explained that Haiti made a pack with the devil decades ago where they agreed to serve Satan if he would deliver them from the French (cultural carry-over of voodoo from Africa). News commentator Ju Ju Chang noted that this was an “old legend”. What the media doesn’t understand is that the duly elected president of Haiti goes through a formal ritual every year during their version of Mardi Gras rededicating the country to the devil. Is it any wonder Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere?

So, I would agree that Haiti’s economy is their own fault, but, can we be sure that this earthquake was God’s judgment for their sin? We Christians will ruin our witness if we blame every unfortunate event on God. What do you think? Was the earthquake God’s judgment?

Tags: earthquake, Haiti, judgment