“To return good for good is human; to return good for evil is divine.” Anon.
We have the saying up here,” You get nothing for nothing”. This means that nobody is going to give you something without alteria motives. In our part of the world we receive a lot of aid from various donor organisations, but in most of the times there is always the fine print as we say. And generally the world runs like this and this becomes expected.
Yet Christ expects something different from His followers. We give not to receive, we do good not to just receive good in return. No we have a higher standard of which is expected of us. But thanks be to God who has given us His Holy Spirit to help us to achieve this high standard. This is why returning good for evil is truly Divine.
This past week we lost a Legend in Mbala. Chris past away on Friday morning at around 4am. He may not mean much to many but to us he had become a father. He left South Africa in 1958 and only ever returned once. He never married and had absolutely no family that we could trace. So as he grew older and was unable to help himself he kind of became our responsibility. The community saw us as his family and so also the burial became our responsibility. However having said this the whole community helped in an amazing way to make the burial possible in such a short time. He is now buried on his farm.
Then just yesterday a Chief in our area past away and so later today I need to go to the funeral house to pass on our condolences. There just seems to be so much death this last week. Even one of Joel’s newly born guinea pigs drowned in the drinking bowl.
But praise be to God death is not final for those who believe in Jesus. God bless.
