Day 6 - Learning

I woke up this morning & my father had me read him a verse of scripture.  After I read it he thanked me for my choice & taught me about the importance of having God as our foundation and our stronghold.  He said that we can get lawyers and we can consult doctors, but can any man protect us from losing a child? Or provide for our families?  We need God to go before us & to protect us… It was Psalm 19.

Later on during the day Amanda Morris & I went to tea & we met a Ugandan student named Immanuel.  He was telling someone about a story from the Bible.  Eventually the person he was talking to had to leave & Amanda & I were left there to listen to him speak.  He was so excited, jumping from one story to another!  Amanda & I couldn’t get a word in the whole time.  After about an hour he finally paused long enough for us to ask his name… & then he continued.  One thing I really noticed about the way he told Bible stories was how he narrated what he assumed was happening behind the scenes all along…

“And there was the lame man! He heard that Jesus was in town & he knew that this was his chance to be made whole! So he had some of his friends carry him there on a stretcher, but when they got to where Jesus was- it was full!  They couldn’t get into the door there were so many people! 

So the friends said, “We must just go home.”

But the lame man said, “No!! Try the window!”

But it was locked, so he said, “Try the roof!” 

And the friends said, “We can’t go through the roof! That is some mans roof! Who will be the one to pay for it?!” 

And the lame man said, “I will pay for it!” 

Because the lame man knew that if he was made whole he would be able to work and then pay for the roof, but if he did not see Jesus he would never work…”

So I learned a lot today… about the Bible.  About people.  I think I can see now that it is indeed easier for the poor man to belong to the Kingdom of God.  Never did I see so much hope in the story of Jesus & the lame man before….

& I certainly never thought to ask who would be paying for the broken roof.