Least to the Greatest

Every week some staff from Amani as well as some members from the local Calvary Chapel Jinja travel 45 minutes into the bush to lead a children's club on Saturdays and house visits on Wednesday and Friday. So often when we go on missions trips we pray and prepare for opportunities to serve the community and be a blessing to those we come in contact with. Giving to those in need and sharing the love the Father has for us is our main purpose. I was so overwhelmed by the experience of our house visits this week and it has easily been the highlight of my week. I look forward to interacting and sharing life with these sweet faces a few times a week.
The people in the village live with no running water, no eletricity, a camp fire as a stove, a dirt filled mangles sheet as a door , straw for a roof , one change of clothing and a couple chickens. These people consider themselves blessed, content, and fortunate with close to nothing. The family we visited this week quickly bowed to the ground in greeting us. They proceeded to wash our hands for us before giving us all the seats they owned for our comfort. The mama of the
home prepared a generous portion of lunch, most likely all they had allotted for the entire day for their family. As I was sitting there graciously eating this precious food I was so overwhelmed by the selflessness of this family. Giving up all the best that one has for strangers , to ensure our comfort was to much. It is so easy to get caught up in taking care of yourself , paying bills , eating when your hungry , showering when your dirty , sleeping when tired. We have everything we need whenever we need to want it. We never really have to go without or sacrifice for anyone. When we do it's to the minimum and rare. Yet so often we think of loss or giving up as a negative thing. A painful process that will have you lacking. On the contrary the opposite is true. We see in the Bible that we are blessed , matured , and the most like Christ when we give of ourselves until we have none left. That 's when we feel the most fulfilled. Only then are we giving
Out of the very abundance that is of and from Christ. All we have been given, all we are is because of Christ. How humbly and absolutely beautiful to see this in action from those that you came prepared to serve yourself. The Lord in His love and mercy painted this picture before me with the sole purpose of revealing my heart , it's wickedness and self centeredness. All we need for this life and.godliness is found in Him , may He be enough , our all , our everything. Father strip away those things that compete for our attentions and affections. Jesus you be the center and the reason for life itself.


1 TIMOTHY 6:
But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. 


MARK 10:43-45
But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must beslave of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

JEREMIAH 31:34
And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”