Pretty Little Bows

I have been blessed to volunteer with some missionaries during my stay in Brazil. I like to minister in one of the communities, "favelas". I have learned a lot from them and the people in the community. I hope I have been able to bless them both too.

One of my favorite things to do, is to visit with people in their houses or on the street and share the love of Jesus. A couple of weeks ago, I went with two other missionaries to visit with guys that traffic in drugs. We walked around the streets, praying and declaring things in the Kingdom of God to be in the community as it is in Heaven. This is not hard to do and doesn't demand relationship. We asked God to lead us as we didn't have specific people to talk to. 

We met up with a few guys. The last guy we met up with was a young man. We didn't know it at the time but he didn't have much time left. Two weeks later, I would see him on the street again, lifeless. It was a shock to me but not to the streets. 

I wonder, if we would have known, if we would have been more urgent? I wonder? I would like to say that he gave his life to Jesus that day we shared with him and prayed with him, but he didn't. He was tolerant of us but always gave us a look like I've heard this before. It was a look that wanted relationship but too many people just talked it but didn't walk it. There's a war going on. Just turn on the television, they will show you. We need to wake up. Matthew 9:37 Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few

We like to put pretty little bows on everything we do as the Body of Christ. We give our selves so many excuses not to do things because of grace, because of our past, because I don't have any money, because I'm not called to do it, because of ..... and the list goes on. We rarely rebuke anymore because "that's not love". At times, I feel all alone in my beliefs. Are we to put pretty little bows on things because we have a Daddy who is this loving mom? Don't we have this loving Daddy who will kick us in the butt too? That's love too, right? It is if you know who you are in Christ and don't take a victim mentality. As believers, we start in victory

I didn't want to put a pretty little bow on this. Blogs are always telling people the successes. We failed to enter into a relationship with him. We didn't have a sense of urgency. I'm sure God was telling us. We didn't listen.