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.
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.