October 27, 2019
YOUR LIGHT SHALL RISE!
Tom Logan
Co-founder, Marion Medical Mission
“If you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday. The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your needs in parched places, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters never fail.” Isaiah 58: 10-11
At times, Marion Medical Mission volunteers question why they are in Africa. While installing pumps there were forgotten tools and down-hole parts, lost keys, flat tires, broken pipe racks, truck and motorcycle breakdowns. There were long days, short nights, dirt, grime, sweat, cement dust, dirty clothes, cheap rest houses, cockroaches, and various other critters. Sometimes there was no breakfast and no lunch. There were sore backs, bad roads, potholes, stumps, night driving, blinding headlights, and long hard hikes to well sites we were told were “just there.” And then there is the frustration and anger over dysentery, cholera and easily preventable deaths caused by unsafe drinking water.
Yet, many wells have been built, providing 100,000s with a sustainable source of safe drinking water. What an incredible battle. What a wonderful mission.
Awesome! Working hand-in-hand in a horizontal relationship with God’s people; hard working people, dedicated people. The Coordinators, the Field Officers, the Installation Supervisors, the Zone Committees, the village communities.
Giving, sharing, singing, dancing, celebrating, speeches, smiles, laughter, friendships (new and old), happy people, thankful people, fellowship, purpose, meaning, direction, making a difference and making life count; at one with whom we were created to be. Love, joy, giving, receiving (chickens, bananas, groundnuts, rice) sunsets, sunrises, a hot shower, a clean bed, a cold Coke, and a cup of clean water.
Astounding! Miraculous! So, tell the story. We were created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God prepared in advance to be our way of life.
Application Question: How will you tell the story?
Prayer: Give us fresh dreams…of your upside down kingdom where the last are first and the first are last … Where the poor are blessed and the peacemakers are the children of God. Where we … study war no more …(Shane Claiborne)
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