Today I took a walk around the area
that I’m living in to talk to the Father about the people living here. It was
perfect weather for a walk and I am glad for the opportunity to do a job so
important, but so easily overlooked. The time really made me reflect a little
bit on how much more I need to talk to the Father in my life.
While I walked I was reminded again
of how many people there are here. Everywhere I turned there were people
working in their stores, doing construction, harvesting rice, playing outside
and driving by. It was interesting to watch all that is going on.
One thing I passed toward the end
of my walk was people carving idols/temple things out of stone. As I watched
for a few minutes I remembered a story that our friend Luke wrote about. He
mentioned that Paul was in a city and he caused a big stir because people were
buying less idols and things related to the temple of Diana. I began to think,
since I am asking the Father to change over this whole village, these men will
surely lose work!
After I got home I spent some time
reading the story and it was so interesting to have just seen a situation with
so many parallels. Someday soon, I hope that there is such little interest in
these idols that these men are making like what happened in the story Luke
told!
It is always such an encouragement
to see how the world is so accurately reflected in a book written over 1,000
years ago! The Creator surely knows us and His Word speaks into the situations
we are in!
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