These last couple days when I think about the beautiful people I am surrounded by my heart breaks. I know that they need Jesus and yet due to religious, language, and cultural walls I at times have a difficulty reaching them.
I am soo blessed to have been brought up in a place through my life where there were fewer walls to jump through to see the Truth.
What's amazing to me is that we all can grow up in different cultures and no matter what we can all agree the blue is blue, red is red and yellow is yellow (crossing the only bridge of language barriers). It at times makes me so upset how stretched each perspective is. Whether Christian, Jew or Muslim, we all have at some point or another put God into a box.
The thing that happened is that Muslim and Jew kept Him in a box, and in most cases aren't willing to let him out. Over time a Christian through sanctification with the Holy Spirit is a new creation completely changed and begins to see God for his true nature and character, and mimics their life after Jesus. I think about the hopelessness that envelopes the Jews and Muslims. Jews are waiting for the Messiah who has already come, and Muslims working themselves to death living in constant bondage with no assurance that the good things they do will ever be enough.
We need need more intercessors, worshipers, and people rising up to be willing to share the good news that Jesus saves. He saves us from our sin/shame, He saves us from our hopeless works, He saves us from religiosity, He saves us from separation that would forever keep us from God. Everyday I walk through the Souks and talk with the people here in Tunisia I love them more, but I am more heart broken because I want those walls to be gone so the can see the beautiful grace, and amazing freedom they could have in Christ if they could just see him for who Truly is. He definitely isn't called the Truth and Light for no reason.
Jesus I am thankful for you! I can't imagine living my life without you! I need you! It's because of you I am set free!
I am soo blessed to have been brought up in a place through my life where there were fewer walls to jump through to see the Truth.
What's amazing to me is that we all can grow up in different cultures and no matter what we can all agree the blue is blue, red is red and yellow is yellow (crossing the only bridge of language barriers). It at times makes me so upset how stretched each perspective is. Whether Christian, Jew or Muslim, we all have at some point or another put God into a box.
The thing that happened is that Muslim and Jew kept Him in a box, and in most cases aren't willing to let him out. Over time a Christian through sanctification with the Holy Spirit is a new creation completely changed and begins to see God for his true nature and character, and mimics their life after Jesus. I think about the hopelessness that envelopes the Jews and Muslims. Jews are waiting for the Messiah who has already come, and Muslims working themselves to death living in constant bondage with no assurance that the good things they do will ever be enough.
We need need more intercessors, worshipers, and people rising up to be willing to share the good news that Jesus saves. He saves us from our sin/shame, He saves us from our hopeless works, He saves us from religiosity, He saves us from separation that would forever keep us from God. Everyday I walk through the Souks and talk with the people here in Tunisia I love them more, but I am more heart broken because I want those walls to be gone so the can see the beautiful grace, and amazing freedom they could have in Christ if they could just see him for who Truly is. He definitely isn't called the Truth and Light for no reason.
Jesus I am thankful for you! I can't imagine living my life without you! I need you! It's because of you I am set free!
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