Perspective
Yesterday after the church service, the missions team walked into the community of the shanty town to pray with anyone who would let us. I walked with a lady who had invited us to her home. She could understand English and she told me how she had 10 children from 3 fathers, she had never married and all 3 fathers had left her with the children. She exists by offering herself as a cleaner to other people’s homes for a small amount of food or money but it is a life that scrapes by.
She invited me into her home. I find it hard to describe it. How do people live like this? There was nothing nice about it at all. But it was home. Her outside kitchen she used once a day to cook porridge and then soup. Her family had this every day.
I prayed for her that the presence of God would invade her life. I prayed that she might receive His love for her.
Then I stopped in my mind. My mouth continued to pray but my mind was elsewhere.
It was Perspective. That’s what I focused on.
Perspective. An outlook on something, a view.
This incredible lady had tough challenges:
She had lost 3 lovers.
Today in Nepal lovers grieve.
She has 10 children to feed.
Today in Nepal families have less children to feed.
She has very little.
Today in Nepal many have less than this lady.
She has a makeshift home.
Today in Nepal homes have vanished.
Already people seem to be rushing with their perspectives on why the earthquake took place!
Why did God allow this to happen?
Simple is the answer already being given, it’s the sin of Nepal, they are under judgment!
What kind of perspective is this?!!
Read today: Luke 13:1-5
Why didn’t God prevent that disaster?
Was it because of their guilt?
No! We are all guilty!
So let me give you some perspective …
Where was God in this earthquake in Nepal?
Perspective.
Where are you now?
Have you prayed?
Have you given?
Missions Paul 