Sitting here on my cozy bed in my cozy house,
drinking coffee while I write to you, makes me a bit itchy. There are so many
calamities in the world today and here we sit and talk about it and cannot do
much. In our own backyard people are suffering and yet we turn a blind eye to
most of it or we chose who we want to help instead just getting dirty. We here,
living in the Kingdom or whatever country you live, have a great responsibility
from God to help the people that are suffering. Lately we are reading with the
boys a small plan on Youversion-30 days of Heartwork and are confronted every
night with new challenges. Something about this little plan. Check it out.
When God wanted to change the world,
what did He do? He let go. The Father let go of Jesus. Jesus let go of any
position or power and became the most vulnerable of creatures - a baby. The
greatest example we can follow is the one that God displayed for us. As He
looked at the world that He created, He saw a society that was filled with
pain, sin, and brokenness. Jesus chose to SPEND HIMSELF on us. He let go of His
very life so that we could be free! “This is how we know what love is…” That’s
a line we might want to pay attention to. If we want to love the way Jesus
loves, we must let go of our grasp on self-focused attitudes.
16-17This
is how we’ve come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life
for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for our fellow believers,
and not just be out for ourselves. If you see some brother or sister in need
and have the means to do something about it but turn a cold shoulder and do
nothing, what happens to God’s love? It disappears. And you made it disappear.
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John 3:16-17
This week, Joshau, John and I tackled the jungle
road again. Lots of fun and mud to endure but we know why we do this. The anti
with the bad snake bite had to be visited and it was a good time to serve the
people in need. I lost my Gopro the week before and a guy picked it up and gave
it back to me when we arrived. Such honesty under the people out there in the
bush. The anti’s finger is doing well and she will be healed soon. God is good
to us all. Please continue to pray for her as it still will take some time
before the finger will be perfect again.
We got rained on severely on our way back and now I
am having a sore throat of getting cold. Yip its cold when it rain so hard you can
hardly see where you going. With a small rain suit its better but you are still
cold. Normally it’s too hot to put it on but when you ride on the highway it
get too cold.
Please pray for my friend Deon. He is off to see the
doctor today and will know when and if he will be operated on. Just heard from
them and the doctor is very pleased with the results and maybe it will not be
such a complicated operation as thought. God is good.
Continue to pray for Fe. She shared that they are
going through a real tuff time financially as well as the fact that they do not
have work in the Philippines. Settling back into a “new” culture is not so
easy. The boys were born in Cambodia and do not really know the Philippines as
their home, so adapting is hard. After 18 years in Cambodia and now back “home”,
it’s a real struggle.
Please pray for uncle Derrick in Tasmania. He
writes.” I have joined the broken heart club. Had a heart attack which was
caused by a minor artery blockage, 4 days in hospital and now in recovery mode.”
"Compassion asks us to go where it
hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear,
confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in
misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion
requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and
powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition
of being human. Henri Nouwen
Thank you for praying for us all. We are a real privilege
people that can have so many prayers going up for us.
Love
Rossouw-clan
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