Hey Afghan Roadies! What's happening?

Shout out to the Roadies in JBAD and KAF!!  What's up?  U guys alright?  I know the reports people hear from far off are never right.
We have had some EXPLOSIONS in Kabul too!  Never a fun thing.
New tactic for this city. There have been quite a bit of police imposters making attempts at our perimeters.  We had one the other day at our gate.  A guy was dressed up as a Afghan soldier and attempted to get in....he is no longer with us.  Needless to say when I get some time off I won't be hanging around the outer gate!!

I am smoked right now and wanted to quickly sum up last weeks truth and fairness discussion.  Bottom line is God may seem unfair in light of certain events here on earth, but the reality is God is very fair.  Think about it.

1. Everybody is welcome. 
2. Everybody gets in the same way. 
3. Everybody can meet the requirement.

This is very fair.  Without a doubt the most fair!  So we can be thankful that we may not always understand God's ways and we most certainly can't live up to His standards, but that by true faith in Jesus Christ we are good to go.
Thank goodness...cause otherwise I'd be toast. 

You guys rock!  Keep up the good fight.  Watch out for the birds!

Matt

Hey Afghan Roadies!

I hope you all are well.  Things are well here in Kabul.  Not sure  

if you realize it, but it's been a rough last couple of weeks for  

coalition forces.  I know in KAF and Kabul its been a pretty costly  

10 days or so.  Looks like the winter is officially over and the  

hills are alive!  Be careful out there.  What may have been a safe  

valley in February, may not be now!!!  Bottom Line Up Front:  Watch  

the recenty thawed out high ground!

On another topic; I would like to vent just a bit about a topic  

close to my heart.  Hope that's ok.

While I am in Afghanistan I seem to run into more and more people  

that just don’t like the message that salvation can only come  

through faith in the resurrected Christ Jesus.  They say it’s unfair!

It’s a basic argument for most people.  The argument that “good  

people” will be able to go to heaven.  This thought process is of  

course a very palatable and fair idea.  I get that logic.  I  

understand the human desire for “all people” to be good, and that if  

you’re good; you get a good outcome after you die.

For me it’s hard to look at people that you know are going to  

struggle to walk out a faith in Christ.

For example, if I were to lead one of my Afghan interpreters to  

faith in Christ.  Of course this could occur only by the power of  

God’s Holy Spirit.  Anyway, this faith would be a suicide mission  

for him.  He would have to be so sold out for Christ because his  

entire world would be shattered in unimaginable ways if he even  

mentioned believing in Christ as the risen Lord.  Is this unfair?

So, do I not tell him…….?

Of course not, I have to tell him.  Now, I have to be smart about  

how I do it and I mostly have to pray for him, but this brings me to  

my point.

Fairness has nothing to do with truth.

Put another way….for something to be true, it does not have to be  

fair.  Sorry, that’s the truth.

FAIRNESS IS NOT A REQUIREMENT OF TRUTH!!!!

Realizing this truth as a Christ follower is what fuels a lifelong  

passion to tell other people about the truth that is Jesus.  It may  

not be fair from a non-believers perspective, but God is holy and  

great in ways humanity can’t understand, so I am compelled to trust  

Him, even if his judgments don’t seem fair.

What do you think?