Killing Fields redux

On Thursday we watched "The killing fields" movie at church, about Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge times. I was happy to see that people other than the STM folks showed up :). It's good to see the kind of support we have, even though they had already seen the movie they watched it again anyway! So before the movie started I thought to myself, I've seen this twice and I'm tired so I'm just gonna sleep through it. But when it started I was completely engrossed and watched it all the way through. Seeing it for the third time made me appreciate some of its finer points, things I did not catch the first two times. Such as the length of time that Pran was a prisoner of the Khmer Rouge, the total communication black out the Khmer Rouge put on Cambodia and how easy it is to think "God had left that place" when we see all that happened. But we know the He did not leave, He was still there and all that happened was part of His sovereign plan. We do not know how or why He allowed the atrocities to unfold but we do know that all things He does for His glory and for the good of His people. I just pray that He would continue to glorify Himself in the world through His people, and that His people would be humble and willing to be His hands and His feet, because His people are those that He has chosen to be His instruments in spreading His name.