Surviving Calamity

I saw someone posted an article about how the Japanese were after the Tsunami tragedy.  How people didn't rob any houses nor any store.  How my fellow country men should be following their example.

Perhaps it's ignorance or being self righteous, I thought about how we should be like the japanese in persevering during calamity.  But who are we to judge?  I saw photos of people breaking into the shops or picking through the debris from dead neighbor's houses for anything to eat, drink or find something to help them survive.  I makes me sad, it makes me what to cry.  What would I do if the same thing happened to me?

I know what it's like when you're close to nothing financially.  But even so, I always have someone to turn to.  It's not like everything was lost.  Seeing the devastation brought on by the Super Typhoon Haiyan, it's hard to imagine living through it and having to experience losing everything.  Like what happened to Job in the Bible. They have lost everything.  Their home, they're children, family, parents or loved one.  There's no water, food, electricity, even a place to stay.  Hungry, sick, tired, bone weary, heart broken. Who are we to judge when these people are just trying to survive?  Help is on the way but how long can people wait?

I could not fault them for doing what they can do to survive.  It might not be the ideal situation.  We forget who we are.  Perhaps we could be more like Job and trust God that He will deliver us.  I am quite sure that God will provide.  I do not know what I would do in a situation where they are now.  I just pray that God will deliver his people and revive our country into helping one another rather than bringing them down.