Last week I had the opportunity to go to drug rehabilitation center here where we are staying in India. This rehabilitation center was a Christian rehabilitation center and focused on a Christ centered type of rehabilitation. There we were blessed to be able to worship with them, share messages/ testimony’s, break off into smaller groups with the people there and we also got to do a volleyball tournament at the end, where of course my group won.
Since being here it has been one of my favorite days. Just getting to go and here their stories of how impactful us being there was, and hearing the questions they had about their faith, and about why we did what we were doing. In the small group that some squad-mates and myself found ourselves in there was a man who I will “Josh”. And “Josh” was a pretty quiet guy. He was wearing a black hat, a black hoodie, dark grey sweats, and some sandals. He had a rose tattoo on his neck and a pretty laidback demeanor about him.
He definitely did not seem like he wanted to be there. And then one of my teammates who was part of my group shared part of his testimony. And he seemed a little more interested in what we were talking about. And after a little bit and with some persistent seeking after, he stared to ask questions about faith.
The questions were actually very difficult questions to answer. But they were very valid questions, I had just never even thought about them before. The one that I still think about and will never forget was, “how can I love Christ if I don’t even know myself?” After “josh” asked that question it was silent for a few moments because none of knew how to respond to his question. And to be honest I still don’t have an answer to his question.
The best that I can come up with is that you can love Jesus because he first loved you. He paid the ultimate sacrifice for every single one of us. And through that love we can put that back to him and to others around us.
So I want you to ask yourself, “am I loving Jesus with all my heart?” And “am I loving Jesus more than myself?”
