I have been reading still more of Shane Claiborne. I have finally finished “Becoming the Answer To Our Prayers.” I love his perspective. One of the things that struck me wile reading was something that he actually said in another one of his books. He asks the question if we have created a way of life with the need for miracles.
Throughout all of the convenience when we are hungry we go to the store, and when we are sick we go to the hospital. He goes on to tell a story of a friend in Latin America who was running a clinic. All kinds of people were coming in needing treatment. Supplies were short and all the missionaries had was a bottle of pepto bismol. Rationing it out to all who cam by…poeple were actually feeling better.
I can’t say that it would have been from the great power of the pink bottle, but the power of the Creator. they needed God to show up. They needed a miracle, and that is just what happened. God showed up.
Like the fishes and the loves, when we we have nothing left but to rely on God we are able to catch a glimpse of the Kingdom.
Where are you taking the plunge and relying on God?
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Oh, geez. What a story. How cool would that be if something like that happend here in Frederick? It would give people so much hope… I’m not saying that a lack of decent medical supplies is good, but anyways…