I read a verse in the Bible today about my dad. You see, the other day I heard a story about him about when he was in his mid-20s and he was a missionary in Mexico. He preached and taught in many villages in the rural mountains of Nuevo Leon and his “base” was with a couple named Pedro and Elita who had started an orphange and church in a city called Galeana. Well, many many moons ago when my dad was down there preaching the gospel to everyone he saw, Elita told her husband not to mention to him that there was a village quite a ways away that didn’t have a church. She said not to tell my dad because to get to this village you had to climb a really steep mountain. There were parts of it you actually had to crawl on your stomach to pass through some of the boulders. And she knew that if my dad knew about this village, he’d do anything to get there. Well, Pedro disobeyed and my father found out. And off he went! Up the mountain, under boulders, on and on to the village. Well, the story goes on, but this is the part of the story I read about in the Bible today. I read: “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who proclaims peace, who brings glad tidings of good things, who proclaims to Zion, ‘Your God reigns!’” (Is 52:7) I’m sure if you saw my father’s feet as he was making his long way to that village his feet did not look anywhere near nice, much less beautiful. They were dirty. They were probably aching and, in my father case, probably very unsteady. He had cerebral palsy that always made his gait a bit off. Dirty, aching, unsteady — that may have been what he, Pedro and Elita saw, but it’s not what God saw. My dad’s feet were beautiful. Like the manger, or the fishermen’s boat or the cross, my dad’s feet may not have seemed beautiful to us, but they carried the greatest treasure on earth … and a heart that was aching to share it with everyone. God’s view of our inner man is SO different from our own irrelevant view of the outer man, but it’s the only one that matters. God, open my eyes to see the truly beautiful things of the world.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:04:45 +0000
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