Apr 11, 2011
Francis Chan, author of Crazy Love, recently came to share at our Gospel For Asia office in Dallas. I have been so blessed in the last year by his books and messages!
He drew a thought from the story of the prodigal son with which I could really identify. When the son was hungry and tired of where his foolishness had gotten him, he decided to go back to his father as a servant. Even the pigs he was taking care of had it better than him! He knew that he had blown it as a son, there was no question about that. But just maybe his father would allow him to work for some food. What a surprise he had when his father interrupted his apology to welcome him back as a beloved son!
Just so with our Father. “Wherefore you are no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.” (Galatians 4:7) Like the prodigal son, we sometimes think “I messed up this son/daughter thing, maybe if I’m offer myself as a slave, He’ll take me back.” We try to prove something to God, trying to be holy for a couple of weeks before being intimate with Him. But I’m not a slave. I’m His girl! I don’t need to beg! He’s just waiting to lavish his love on me! What a Father!
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Nov 2, 2010
The other day I was walking on the stone path that winds around a nearby lake, and I came across two sweetly shy girls. They had a plastic container that held a grasshopper and they were busily hunting in the grass for more of the little critters. I asked them what they were planning to do with them, and this is what they said: “We caught some yesterday and gave them to Auntie, and she fried them and made grasshopper fry.” Not the answer I expected! The grasshopper was unwittingly facing its last moments. Content, not realizing its coming end. Tragic.
Someone told me that grasshoppers “are crunchy and taste kind of like shrimp…” I was almost convinced that they didn’t sound too bad until the description continued, “…but the legs are scratchy.” I don’t think I’ll order grasshopper anytime soon.
Sometimes finding myself in a different culture is an interesting experience! Grasshoppers are not the only things I’m learning about, though. Recently, an Asian missionary energetically challenged my roommate and I, “Throw your life. You will gain it back. These are the Master’s words. ‘Whoever finds his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will gain it.'” This is from a brother who has faced the rigors of rugged missionary life and whose burden is for a people group that has been very closed to the Gospel. Sacrifice for the sake of the Savior is worth more than it costs.
There you have it, sacrifice…and grasshopper fry.
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Oct 8, 2010
A Few Of My Favorite Things
(The Mosquito Remix)
Rain on umbrellas,and playing the keyboard;
Afternoon tea-break and praising the Lord;
Family answ’ring the phone when it rings,
These are a few of my favorite things.
When mosquitoes bite, when the ant stings,
When I’m feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I don’t feel so bad.
Taking my shoes off outside of the door
Sitting cross-legged on mats on the floor
Seeing a friend from the “Land of Kings”
These are a few of my favorite things.
Wearing punjabis and eating lime pickle
Spending two rupees instead of a nickel
Asian believers beginning to sing
These are a few of my favorite things.
Corie Anna 2010
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