Simplicity
Simplicity
Still along the line of my weekend trip, but different focus ...
It's amazing how the islanders can survive on bare minimum - a simple hut, very little furnishings, very bare minimal cooking area ... I guess we who have more often want some more, so much so that we become so discontented, and become easily envious of other persons who have what we do not happen to have. Whatever happened to contentment? Whatever happened to simplicity? Whatever happened to gratitude?
I asked myself the question, "Would I be able to survive in such a simple living condition?" I guess it would be possible, but difficult, especially when I had been used to having much. That's when I began to really saluate missionaries who are willing to forgo the comfort of their lives in their own home country, the relationships they established in their homes, etc - and leave to mingle and minister to a group of people that they knew needed to know the love of God more than they need the enjoyment of their luxuries back home. Praise God for everyone single one who has been willing to uproot themselves from their comfort zone and be sent into the respective mission field.
Romans 10:14-15 "How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"
Still along the line of my weekend trip, but different focus ...
It's amazing how the islanders can survive on bare minimum - a simple hut, very little furnishings, very bare minimal cooking area ... I guess we who have more often want some more, so much so that we become so discontented, and become easily envious of other persons who have what we do not happen to have. Whatever happened to contentment? Whatever happened to simplicity? Whatever happened to gratitude?
I asked myself the question, "Would I be able to survive in such a simple living condition?" I guess it would be possible, but difficult, especially when I had been used to having much. That's when I began to really saluate missionaries who are willing to forgo the comfort of their lives in their own home country, the relationships they established in their homes, etc - and leave to mingle and minister to a group of people that they knew needed to know the love of God more than they need the enjoyment of their luxuries back home. Praise God for everyone single one who has been willing to uproot themselves from their comfort zone and be sent into the respective mission field.
Romans 10:14-15 "How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"
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