“Take the guitar. When they see that you are a woman playing it, they will see that women can do something. They will let the girls go to school.”
Sometimes.
Most times, actually.
We have no idea the impact our lives have on people.
The things I say, the way I act, the simple playing of a guitar…
It can change someone’s life.
Or even an entire culture.
Now, part of me is not convinced that playing two songs on my beat up guitar in church in the Pokot tribe actually made much of a difference on how they see women.
After all,
I’m white.
I’m seen as more of a celebrity than a missionary.
But the other part of me,
the part that knows just how insane God is to our human minds,
knows that HE could use me in ways I wouldn’t even know how to comprehend.
And so I was thinking yesterday…
What if playing two songs on my beat up guitar actually DID change the way they see women?
What if they saw that I was educated and actually had opinions and cares and worries,
and that opened their eyes to their own wives opinions, cares and worries?
What if God moving through me actually impacted a culture enough to completely change it?
Could I really make that big of a difference in this world?
Just thinking about it makes my heart do a summer sault.
I desire nothing more than to see people actually walk in the freedom they were made to walk in.
And I desire nothing more than for every person I encounter to see Jesus in me.
I want to be a walking encounter with the Holy Spirit.
I’ll never know if those two songs changed someone’s life.
I’ll never know how much I impacted that culture.
But I know that I did impact it, with Christ in me.
Because when you meet Him…
You can never be the same again.
