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Numbers 7; Psalm 23; Acts 27
The LORD Is My Shepherd;
I Have All That I Need.
Scripture
1 The Lord is my shepherd;
I have all that I need.
Observation
I have just come back from Southern India. Images of
rural India still fill my head. Outside of the cities, out in the villages most
people live a very simple and difficult life. Along the roadside women and men
are seen carrying huge loads of all sorts of things somehow balancing them on
their heads. Out in the fields men and women are seen working the fields bent
over using a very short handle hoe to work the fields. Many are seen walking
down the roads bare footed. Their feet show the wear and tear of the difficult
life.
Believers and non-believers in those villages many living
in small thatched huts were overjoyed that we would come into their homes and
pray for them. In fact, they couldn’t believe that we would actually put our
hands on them and touch them as we prayed for them. In their humble homes they
would want us to sit down and they would offer us tea or coffee or “thumbs up”
(their cola drink like Coke or Pepsi). If they didn’t have chairs we would sit
on their cots and we would talk to them. By American standards they had
nothing. They had no running water in their homes, no bathrooms, no kitchens.
Most American’s have way more in one room of their house than any of these
people have ever seen.
In every village we went into we preached the Gospel,
gave out medicines, and fitted people for eyeglasses. The believers in those
villages even though they didn’t have many of the things that we have here in
the U.S. had everything that they needed. They had tremendous “joy”. They had
Jesus Christ!
I admire and have tremendous respect for the Indian
pastors that I met who work in those villages.
Sometimes we Americans think we know everything about everything, but I
think we could learn a lot about how to live from those Christians that I met
out in those villages!
Application
I am so blessed. I will thank the Lord for His goodness.
I have everything that I need.
Prayer
Heavenly Father, thank You for providing for me. I have
everything that I need. Help me to never forget the believers and non-believers
in India. Give me Your heart for them. Help me be content. I am blessed. You
have provided so much for us here in the United States. I know that you have
blessed us so much so that we can travel to other countries and take the Gospel
to those who have not yet heard about Jesus Christ. Don’t let me waste my
resources on myself.
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