“Therefore, we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.” 2 Corinthians 4:16
While looking at a photograph recently of me holding my grandson, ten years ago, my ‘brilliant mind’ reminded me that I am getting old; wasting away, more wrinkles and unmistakable appearance of additional white hair day by day and muscles and joints that have to be soothed and coaxed while in the process of getting up in the morning. If the direction of our culture is correct then I am in desperate need of a makeover.
We live in times where plastic surgery, botox injections, artificial joints and facial wax and creams are what will keep us the way this world insists we are to look and act. We even have makeovers for our houses, interior and exterior, pets and automobiles. Giving in to the ‘wisdom’ of this world of makeovers reminds me that you are never too old to learn something really stupid.
I am thinking that this world would certainly not hesitate to tell Trinity HOPE that the kitchen at the school at Bas de Sceaut is in need of a makeover. Really, a makeover…look at the photo; do you agree? Cooks should not be made to squat over their pots of rice and beans over an open fire; the dirt floor is another bad mark and look at those walls, they have to be bug magnets. The children attending the Lutheran school there will tell that they don’t need a makeover; they just need Jesus and food.
For a disciple of Jesus Christ, the desire for a makeover has taken place on the cross. Our life and the lives of His children in Bas de Sceaut have been transformed by the most important makeover on this planet; our thoughts, words and actions are His as we take the news of our risen Savior to the lost.
Heavenly Father, you have called your servants to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths as yet untrodden, through perils unknown. Give us faith to go out with good courage, not knowing where we go but only that your hand is leading us and your love supporting us through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen.
May God be with you…Jay