A Call for Wisdom

[Angelina]

I recall my Pastor telling me this story when staying with a family while he and a group of other missions folk, were doing an outreach to a specific Island in the South Pacific.

The family he was staying with were extremely poor but willing to share everything they had with him. He told me how they gave him a cracked mirror to shave with and how proud they were with that mirror as it seemed it was to most precious thing they had. As a westerner, he would have found this insulting but as a believer, he held his tongue.

Pastor just could not understand how people can be so happy and generous but also ignorant of their extreme poverty.

After much thought, I replied that these people have obviously not been exposed to things that the world considers as the "necessities of life."

If this is so, then how can they possibly miss, what they have never had.

 

[farouk]

I recall my Pastor telling me this story when staying with a family while he and a group of other missions folk, were doing an outreach to a specific Island in the South Pacific.

The family he was staying with were extremely poor but willing to share everything they had with him. He told me how they gave him a cracked mirror to shave with and how proud they were with that mirror as it seemed it was to most precious thing they had. As a westerner, he would have found this insulting but as a believer, he held his tongue.

Pastor just could not understand how people can be so happy and generous but also ignorant of their extreme poverty.

After much thought, I replied that these people have obviously not been exposed to things that the world considers as the "necessities of life."

If this is so, then how can they possibly miss, what they have never had.

@Angelina I think your header verse from 1 Cor. 1.18 also relates to what you just posted; it's all related to perspective and to what truly matters...

 

[amadeus]

I recall my Pastor telling me this story when staying with a family while he and a group of other missions folk, were doing an outreach to a specific Island in the South Pacific.

The family he was staying with were extremely poor but willing to share everything they had with him. He told me how they gave him a cracked mirror to shave with and how proud they were with that mirror as it seemed it was to most precious thing they had. As a westerner, he would have found this insulting but as a believer, he held his tongue.

Pastor just could not understand how people can be so happy and generous but also ignorant of their extreme poverty.

After much thought, I replied that these people have obviously not been exposed to things that the world considers as the "necessities of life."

If this is so, then how can they possibly miss, what they have never had.

"Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city," Prov 9:1-3

"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding." Prov 9:10

 

[Truman]

They know what it is like to have nothing, so when they have something of value, it is something special.
Remembering how close they are to having nothing.

 

[michaelvpardo]

24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Matthew 6:24-26

2 For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings, in fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in filthy clothes, 3 and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, “You sit here in a good place,” and say to the poor man, “You stand there,” or, “Sit here at my footstool,” 4 have you not shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
5 Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? 6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts? James 2:2-6

5 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. James 5:1-3

No opinions, just His word. 'Nuff said.

 

[quietthinker]

A Call for Wisdom
Which corner of the street was she on?

 

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