a sin

There is a sin that I think of every time I come back from a mission trip.  It is the sin of forgetting.

We go, and we see, and we think, how can it be like this?  We have so much, they have so little.  It is very easy for us to fall back into our comfortable life, and forget the people that God has called us to love.

 

We love the scriptures that tell us of God's forgiveness for us, but we like to forget the ones that point us out toward others.

 

1 Jn 3 says, "¹⁶ This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. ¹⁷ If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? ¹⁸ Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth."

 

And so here are these wonderful people that we have grown to know and love.  We have taken them into our Woods Chapel family.   Let's not forget them. 

It's a beautiful day in God's world, be sure to see the good.