Dani and I left Washington on March 30 and now, by Monday June 15, this trip will be concluded. For the last two weeks I worked with a Passion4People team in Delhi and Hyderabad. We had a great time and spoke at many churches and venues. I will only give a couple of highlights.
At a clinic near the slums, we were able love on children, help with a few medical diagnoses, and pray and counsel for hurting women. It is so good to know that those who are abused, pushed down, and forgotten on earth will be first in the kingdom of God for eternity. It is the only encouragement we could give to some of the dear souls we met.
I was smitten by the juxtaposition of the bright shining faces of the children who lived in abject poverty in the slums. The contrast of life’s most precious treasure set against the worst of earth’s filth and depravation became a living example to me of how God sees us. Those who follow Jesus are precious to God, and yet, here we are surrounded by a broken world. It is a paradox God fully intends to remedy. Praise to him!
Our final undertaking was to tour the Taj Mahal. It is the icon of India and breathtaking as it sets stark against the open sky. Truly a mammoth undertaking, the Taj was built in the 1600’s as a tomb for the favorite wife of a local king named Shah Jahan. It took 20,000 workers 22 years to complete the white marble wonder. What a testament to the man’s love for his late wife.
As I stared at the mausoleum, I thought, how awesome that I have a king who loved me so much that he paid a price far more expensive to build a permanent home that is more impressive then the weathering Taj Mahal. Even the wealthiest of earthly kings do not fathom the meaning of true blessing as do the children of the one true God.
Without your prayers, this trip and our ministry would be impossible. Thanks for your partnership in the gospel of peace.
1Ti 6:12 –1Ti 6:16 NIV
Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses. In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, who while testifying before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you to keep this command without spot or blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which God will bring about in his own time—God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever. Amen.
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