So today I made the decision to skip physics class in order to go to my Math Professor's office hours. Great decision since I didn't have tons of help I needed, but I kinda enjoy my math professor more than my physics class. He's kinda a quieter guy, but it's kinda funny to watch him do math and make jokes about how much we enjoy doing some of the stuff we have to do (which is crazy, I might add). But regardless I also got the opportunity to pull out my laptop and check the answers to the math problems I had, well I got them right(YAY!), and now I have a few minutes to post before my math class starts.
This morning I was reading from A Call to Die by David Nasser. The book talks about fasting from the world and realizing our own spiritual depravity and a call for us to die to ourselves and feast on God. Hit me up if you want to take a look at it. Its really good, but this morning, I was reading it and it was telling this story about a man named Chris Heurtz. THIS guy gave up everything to go and work with Mother Theresea in Calcutta. The largest city in the world and also the poorest. Thousands die daily, but what Chris did was he went out and would find those close to death and bring them in, give them a warm meal, fresh clothes, and a haircut so that they could die with some form of dignity. There were lepers, people with tuberculosis, all kinds of sores and nastiness, that would drive me wild. Regardless, he continued and he began to see them in a different light. Instead of seeing them as people who were sick and disgusting, he saw people who needed some love and attention. His first image of them was of the need of their souls before the needs of their flesh. He also described an instance where he had to take the trash out. Back behind the place where it just smelled of rotted flesh and dirty diseases. Whenever some fresh trash came out, kids would come running to scavenge through the trash to find something to eat, DESPITE BEING WARNED OF ITS FILTH. They were so hungry that they feasted on the filth and the grime of the world and ignored any opportunity to take on something better. Don't we kinda do the same thing?
Don't we often feast on sinful things that cause spiritual death despite the warnings from God and those around us? We spend so much time eating up those things that when the time comes, and we realize that we need to be feasting on God, we're too full. We've filled up with the things of this world and we no longer have room for God in our stomachs. How can we fix this? How can we cure ourselves of these diseases? We must feast on God. Not only is He going to make us full, He is going to heal us in the process. We can trust in Him to fulfill our needs and fight the disease in our lives. Sometimes it will hurt.
In C.S. Lewis' The Great Divorce there's a man who wants to become real. He wants to make the journey up the mountain to heaven, but this little lizard on his arm is convincing him not to. The spirit trying to lead him to heaven (sent from God) is trying to convince him to allow the spirit to remove the lizard and kill it. But the man is convinced that the pain will be too great and the lizard isn't all that bad. Finally, the man allows for the lizard to be removed and he feels the pain. But also he is made full. His body is complete and he is ready for the journey up to heaven. Granted its not always like this, but we do experience pain as the lizards are removed from our lives, and through this we are made complete. As it says in James 1:2 "Consider it a great joy my brethren whenver you experience various trials and tribulations for the testing of your faith produces endurance." Enjoy love you guys!
---- The Running Man
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