“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
Last day in July and seven months are in the books for 2024. While spending going through some old photographs recently, I came across one of me holding my granddaughter Audrey and my ‘brilliant mind’ reminded me that I am getting old; wasting away, more wrinkles, creaks in the joints, new bruises and the unmistakable appearance of additional white hair day by day. If the direction of our culture is correct then I am either in desperate need of a makeover or need to put the final touches to my funeral plans.
We live in times where plastic surgery, botox injections, artificial joints and facial wax and creams are what will keep us the way this fallen world insists how 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 fallen world of makeovers reminds me that you are never too old to learn something really stupid.
I am thinking that this world would certainly tell Trinity HOPE that the kitchen at the school at Bas de Sceaut is in need of a makeover. Look at the photo; do you agree? Cooks should not be made to squat over their pots of rice and beans cooking 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 you 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 of Calvary. 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…everywhere we go.
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