APR 22, 2006
I posted this back in April 2006 and although we are all well and health now.... finally...our apartment looks like this....so we must tackle this before someone calls the "Hoarding:Buried Alive" show on me. I can not stand this kind of cluttered mess unless it's in an unfinished basement or attic.
Beautiful Stranger
Well I was not sure were my next blog entree was going to come from but I think God has decided that for me and I am ok with that. I am ok with God telling me what to do, and I am ok his soft nudges and tugs at my heart. So with that in mind I’m going to do my best to listen and follow his instructions with this blog entree, even thought to be honest I have no idea what is it I am going to say or how it will come across to others, or exactly how God is going to use it. It is all a blur to me but I feel it is something I must do at the same time. I feel like Moses when he was debating with God at the burning bush. He kept coming up with all these excuses why God could not use him to do what God was telling him to go do. (Exodus 3-4) I could probably come up with a million excuses why someone else would do a much better job at expressing this topic and the reality of it but I am then reminded of God’s ANSWERS to all of Moses excuses. God promised to be with him, to give him the words to speak, he gave Moses signs and wonders that he could use to prove that he had spoken to God and was God’s messenger. Who am I to say that God can’t use this – he is God Right!?!
Well to start I will tell you how this topic started burning on my own heart. It actually came from listening to a song. (Which I will put the words to at the end.) This song spoke to me in such a way that for a brief moment I felt the deep pain of God’s heart and could do nothing but cry.Now my emotions are moved easily at times because I tend to be a very emotional person; but I truly believe that God gave me a close glimpse of part of his heart. A heart that is breaking for people from the worlds eyes are not so beautiful. These people are the ones we tend to over look, ignore or forget about, there the outcasts we for whatever reason never try and get to know. These people may be the person sitting next to us on the bus, our class mates at school, people we work with on a daily basis, our neibours, or even people in our own family.God is calling us to reach out to them. To preach his good news to all nations all of creation this is the great commission. (Matthew 28:16-20), (Mark 16:15). We are to be his hands and feet to show them they are loved even if the world rejects them for who they seem to be on the outside. These people need to see God through us his children; it’s the only way they may see who he is and how much love he has for them. They need to know they don’t have to fit in with the world to be special in Gods eyes. They just need to be themselves the one God created them to be.
Also remember the story in Matthew 25:31-46 God reminds us that when we are his hands and feet helping the lesser of the world we are doing these things to God himself. (“Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored that was me – you did it to me.” Matthew 25:40)
It can be so tough not to judge quickly based on appearances but these people need to hear the good news too. Someone needs to help the homeless person on the bus who everyone pretend is not there. Someone needs to reach that child in school who no one wants to be friends with. Someone must take the time to show Gods love to the one relative who no ones wants to have anything to do with. These people’s souls are crying out for love. They need to know that there is more to life then the pain they feel from the everyday rejection the world gives them. God sees these people as diamonds with in stone. They have beauty but it may be hidden and needs a chance to show it self. So let’s remember to look at the lesser then ourselves through the looking glasses of God and remember to show his love to all people!
Psalms 139:13-14
Beautiful Stranger -Rebecca St. James
“Do you see me?”
The question’s in her eyes
“Do you relate to the pain I can’t disguise?”
Oh, look beyond what you see
The outside is not all there is
Chorus
Won’t You tell me now when did I see
You in need of water?
Oh, and tell me now, when did I see You
Hungry on the street?
God, I hear You calling out to me
In the voices of the least of these
Calling me to reach beyond my world
To the beautiful stranger
Beautiful Stranger
He does not look like everyone else
Does not fit in anywhere I know
You ask me to be Your hands
And show him now that he is loved
Chorus
There’s beauty that lies deep within
Waiting to be discovered
God help me see what You see
The diamond in the stone.
Yesterday we saw a teen on the subway. He was deaf but also seemed to be autistic. He would periodically yell out and grab or push people and people were responding very negatively to him. All I could think is that's someone's son and it's not his fault, nor is it wrong that he is different than the rest of us. As we left the train I remarked to my husband that he should not be out on his own, that he was like a lost puppy and that perhaps we should try to get him to authorities. But we did nothing. It brings tears to think of it now. When did I stop helping? Next time I will be more brave. Thank you so much for this post!!!
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