We just got back from a trip to the market and to a coffee shop which was such a wonderful little place. On the way there, we saw a little child about Caleb's age sitting on the side of the road. People were passing him and not looking at him- as though he didn't exist. Shay, who had passed earlier this morning to go to the bank, said he was there earlier. On the way back from the market he was still there. Forgotten, alone, probably hungry and scared. And God shook me to my core. I could barely make it back to my room Before crying and falling on my knees. He shook me and reminded me of my purpose. To not forget: to pray for these children who don't have a mother to pray for them. HE has not forgotten this child. This ride was not just to go to the market; it was to show us the faces of a people who need him, who are going about there day with no idea of what it's like to know him, a people who have become so used to seeing children on side of the road that they walk past them. I don't think these people are bad for not seeing this child. We too have so much in the states that we don't SEE. Things we have become calloused to. What I pray is that god would move on the people of Uganda to have a heart for him and his children. To feel how much he loves them. I wanted so bad to stop and pick him up and bring him to the orphanage but we couldn't. This is our purpose friends. This is why refuge exists. This is what god has put in our life: to make a difference. To prevent children from living and begging on side of the road. It may not seem like much but friends when you see a child like this little one on the street you realize the difference we can make. You are a part of saving a child's life. A little life that has been forgotten for so long. Through you, they are KNOWN. They are loved.
I recently purchased this book called Women of the Word which was recommended to me by a friend. It's a year long devotional of 52 women in the Bible. I'm on week one and God is already using it to teach me. EVE WHAT GOD SAID: You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die. WHAT EVE TOLD THE ENEMY GOD SAID: We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, "You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die." WHAT THE ENEMY TOLD EVE: You will not certainly die, for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. First - Eve added to God's word. Second - so did the enemy. Seeing this leads me to ask two questions: 1. How of...
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