Here I am @ Calvary Chapel Managua. There are several things that come to mind that I'd like to share The first is how universal the desire of all of us is to have our family members saved. At Tuesday night prayer meeting and during home visits the past few days, all of the women have asked for prayer for unsaved children. I encouraged them that God will finish the good work that He started in each one. Then God gently confirmed for me that it is God's job to save hearts not a mothers job. We met a young girl who walked by the church as a young girl and the pastor invited her in. That's all it took. None of her family is saved but God did the work and called her to him. Her mom and dad have done nothing to encourage her to salvation. Just trust the Lord.
The second is that I was washing dishes for a woman the other day. I needed strength to not make faces as ants crawled in and out of the sink and into the place where I was placing the dishes. Dishes? I would not have allowed those dishes in my kitchen. And really it was a plastic cup, that has seen better days, a old tin cup, a well used fry pan and several odd utensils. I would have given them to the kids to play in the sand. I am ashamed of my discontentedness as I thought recently that my blue dishes no longer match my new kitchen so I wanted ones. As I looked around her home, a dirt floor, walls mismatched pieces of board nailed together, walls shared by both families on both sides, nothing but a few bits of furnatiure you would see at the dump, I thought our sheds and dog house are much better constructed then this home. When we asked her what her biggest problem was, she replied, “How can you be happy when you can't keep your home clean? Really? Such a lovely lady. She is so happy with nothing. What is wrong with our culture? What is wrong with me? How could I have so much and yet want more. She was content in the love of the Lord and so happy to have Jesus in her life, that her surroundings don't matter. May I learn to be content.
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