Reflections from church this morning:
- "In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which, when translated, is Dorcas), who was always doing good and helping the poor" [Acts 9:36].
- What is your reputation? Are you known as one who does good and helps the poor?
- What does it mean to help the poor? Does that only refer to meeting people's physical needs? Sure, providing for physical needs (food, clothes, and shelter) is absolutely "helping the poor," but what about those who are poor in spirit?
- When I initially thought about teaching in Honduras, I thought I would be working with children who are poor. God has been shifting my paradigm and redefining poverty. I am working with students who are poor, but not in the way I understood poverty before. They have almost everything they could ever need or want in terms of material things, but they lack so much when it comes to spiritual and emotional needs. In a third world country, they seem to have everything; yet, they are merely covering up their spiritual and emotional poverty with material things that will never satisfy them. While I can rarely provide material things (they have more money than I do!), I believe God has called me to "help the poor" by providing spiritual truth and emotional support to these students.
- When Tabitha died, people mourned because their lives and their town would not be the same without her. Would people feel the same way about you or your ministry if it all ended today?
