Our first day out doing community service, my team of 3 other ladies and myself met a young boy about 3 miles off of the main road. After taking pictures with him we gave him a pack of trident gum. The next day, that same boy showed up on the very path that we take everyday wearing the same tiger t-shirt he was in the day before and enthusiastically smiling with an attitude that was ready to receive more. It is easy for us to simply look at this situation as that of one that is based on 'begging,' however, God laid it on my heart that this is how we as Christians should be. This little boy, not over the age of 10, has made the walk to the very path that crosses our own every single day since I have been here in Romania. He stands there waiting and waives as he says "Buna" to greet us. He asks us for food or for bracelets or for anything he might be able to take away with him; little does he know what an impact he has had on myself. His curiosity and perseverance and optimism brings and keeps him on that path, waiting patiently for the people whom he knows will soon walk by.
Wouldn't it be awesome if we as believers lived day in and day out with a faith like this? What if we could be willing to go back to those places where perhaps we never received much or anything at all and were able to just wait. Perhaps that very place is one that brings back pain from the past, a sorrow in our souls, or even just a place that we were afraid to go to all along. What a faith we could have in just going and not knowing. What a faith in waiting and growing. What if we only received a little and continued to go back for more. I believe we SHOULD walk in the heat, shoeless, wearing the same clothes as the day before, miles off of the beaten path. Perhaps then we would realize exactly what we have and perhaps then, we would realize how much we have left to gain.
Waiting. Knowing. Receiving. Growing.
What a faith we could have if we lived like this.
What a relationship we could have.
What a worth we could find.
What power we could see.
There is a great faith in waiting. There is great faith in reliability and there is a great faith in going back to that place where we might have not received something before, but trust that we will.
Today, I will see that boy waiting.
Today will be the 13th day.
He will probably be wearing a tiger t-shirt.
He will probably look dirty.
He will probably want to give me a high five.
I know he will be there.
I will be there too.
We all should strive to be there.
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