I think thats what it was that I learned this month…
Coming into this month, with it being a closed country, I really was unsure of what it would look like. Possibly just moments of doing good for people? Not being as open as I am with my faith and why we’re here on this race? Would they still know it was Jesus in me that I wanted them to have and not just my “good works”?
This month I was with a team and our ministry was assisting in classrooms for refugee kids. I was excited to be in a classroom. I love teaching. I love kids. First day, I knew it was going to be a tough good-bye. Children who moved from all over to come to this school because of their situations.
In the morning class I was partnered with one girl in particular. The second class, I was placed with random kids. I ended up becoming really close with the “rowdy” kids. The ones the teachers often get upset with because they don’t listen, or study. For some reason, I’m quick to get along with them. There was a day I ended up sitting with one of the boys. He reminded me a lot about a friend back home. We were simply coloring a picture and next thing you know he gave me all 12 of his pictures. I knew that there was something more to him then just the “kid that doesn’t listen.” As we sat there, he started humming a song that I knew. It was God is Able, by Hillsong! Who would have guessed that in this country, in this classroom, i would find a kid who loves the Lord. Over the course of the month i found out a lot about him. His passions, the gifts and talents he has. I began to see him different than i had at first. My eyes being opened to who he is, over what he does.
It’s not just the fact that he loved Jesus. YES that is big / its almost everything, but God gave me a wider perspective. That in the midst of whatever is in the world, in the midst of a closed country, in the midst of kids that don’t listen, can we still encounter God when we are not expecting to. Can we, do we, choose to see with His eyes and not our own? Do we choose to see Jesus in every circumstance despite if it is a “good day” or “bad day”? Do we expect Him, in the midst of darkness?
I finished reading the book “The Monkey and the Fish” about a month ago and was reminded of a part in it…
“It’s a Genesis 1 worldview versus a Genesis 3 worldview. If you choose to live in a Genesis 3 world, you see the world as cursed, bad , fallen. you are going to be looking around and saying ‘the world is full of sin’. if you live in a Genesis 1 world, you go ‘ okay. right. all thats there. and i can see that. but we still live in a Genesis 1 world too, where God says ‘its good’ and especially when it comes to people, ‘its very good.’ but we tend to walk through the world and pronouce a curse. Thats all we see. CAN WE EVEN SEE ANYTHING OTHER THAN THAT? How about our being the ones walking Around this world with Genesis 1 eyes and finding what’s good in it? There is a miracle that happens when we choose to pronounce a blessing.”
I believe there is a powerful truth in that.
With as simple as a perspective change, we have the ability to see that His goodness reaches far beyond what only seems good.
Im learning that God not only uses the good for His good, but He uses ALL for His good.
I do still need your help to stay on the field!
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