Church was about these verses today, so Pastor Steve showed a short video about Christians in India who are standing up for Jesus, even though they'll be persecuted for not following Hinduism. His point was that Christians in America shouldn't complain about their problems because they're so insignificant when compared to so many other problems that are going on in the world. This seems to be an underlying theme in my life during the past week and here's another example of why...
During the reflection time at WorkFest on Friday, another student stood up to talk about his experience that week. He had been in the military and I'm pretty sure that he had been in combat in Afghanistan. He said that he had come into the week thinking that the circumstances he had been through were going to be worse than any of the other people he was going to encounter that week. Then he ended up on a crew with two girls who had survived cancer. He thought that they were much stronger than him because of what they had gone through. He was also impressed with their joy and their desire to serve others.
I think the most amazing part of it all was how God-ordained that crew was... our week had 6 or 7 colleges with probably 8-15 people from each of them. The crews are assigned fairly randomly (I think skill and gender are taken into account, but that's about it), so most of the people on each crew haven't met before the beginning of the week. To think that there was one crew with two girls who had survived cancer and one guy who had fought in a war had to be more than a coincidence because I'm sure that God was allowing them to learn from each other during the week. It also goes to show that one person's area of brokenness can eventually become their way of ministering to others.
Question: When was a time that you realized how small your problems were when you compared them to another person's?
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