In yesterday’s post, I was able to share what the Lord has been doing through Wiphan Care Ministries. One of the coolest thing about Wiphan to me is—is that we are a grassroots ministry…just 3 years old…but the Lord has blessed us greatly through other believers joining us. For the first couple of years, in many ways we were treading water, learning from trial and error and just doing the best we could with little experience. But O HOW THE LORD SHINED! And continues to! Wiphan is run in Zambia by local Zambians, but it is supported by locals in the Atlanta area. We would love nothing more for it to SPREAD BEYOND ATLANTA! Because guess what? If we spread BEYOND Atlanta—we can eventually spread beyond Zambia! You in?
First—Check out Wiphan. See what we’re about. We’d love to grow. We’d love for you to help us.
Second—HOW? From the very beginning we have trust the LORD to raise up the people He wants to use to impact the world through Wiphan. And you know our faithful Father has been faithful. Will you consider helping us spread the word—so others can learn about Wiphan (WIdows + orPHANs = Wiphan). We are in need of monthly sponsors, child sponsorships, yearly donors and local representatives to be a voice to share Wiphan with others. It can start REALLY simply. By just learning about Wiphan—wearing a T-shirt and when people ask…direct them to our website! (Being a representative has never been so easy has it?!) One of my bestfriends in the whole wide world runs our website—I’d love to get a call from her that lots of people bought the t-shirt today! We just got new navy ones! AND ones for kids too!!! Buy yours here.
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Third—Pray about sponsoring a child! We have just 10 kids left on the site…but we’ll be putting up a new grade SOON. I bet my sister April who facilitates this will put more kids up if those 10 are sponsored this weekend!!! Many of the children on our sponsorship site are “older children”. Maybe you aren’t called to actually adopt an older child—but what about sponsor one? Here’s just one face of many of our children… Her name is Veronica. Her mom is a widow with 6 children. Veronica attends Wiphan school, and she wants to be a teacher when she grows up. Her favorite color is orange—and she loves chickens and cows:). AND if you sponsor her (or one of our other children this weekend) you can send her a letter with pictures of your family and my hubby will take them over when he leaves in a few weeks to go see her and our other 450 orphans who attend our schools.
AND FINALLY—please pray for us. Pray that the Lord will continue to bless this ministry! Pray that God will give our Zambian staff discernment and wisdom in caring for the many orphans and widows that attend our program. Pray that the Lord will raise up COUNTLESS others to JOIN US! Pray that those He calls will be obedient to follow—and that we will keep our eyes set on Him. Pray that He would give us willing hearts to live sacrificiously.
And feel free to copy and paste our cool t-shirt on your blog too (you can copy it from the RSS feed or from Wiphans website). And direct others to Wiphan to buy it. And in that process—spread the word—and impact the orphans and widows of Ndola, Zambia with just a small sacrifice like this one. Remember from yesterday’s reading—the Lord wants our obedience over sacrifice. If you don’t feel led to join us, please just pray for us. We covet your prayers. But if you do feel led to join us, spread the word on your blog or by buying a t-shirt or by supporting a child…WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOUR HANDS AND FEET TO SERVE.
Serve one another. Help one another. Love one another. Why does it feel SO good to do His work?! AMEN! Thank you for praying for Wiphan! OK, I’d LOVE to have Addie call me and tell me people are buying t-shirts!!! Let’s knock her socks off because I know she’s busy and not reading my blog this weekend! . DISCLAIMER: ANDREA YOUNG AND WIPHAN CARE TAKES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THOSE WHOSE HEARTS ARE CHANGED BECAUSE OF THEIR INVOLVEMENT WITH WIPHAN CARE MINISTRIES. PLEASE BE ADVISED YOUR INVOLVEMENT COULD ROCK YOUR WORLD, CHANGE THE WAY YOU LIVE AND MAKE YOU VERY UNCOMFORTABLE. YOUR SERVICE CAN CHANGE LIVES AND BE VERY COSTLY RESULTING IN TRIPS OVERSEAS AND AN EXPLODING HEART FOR ORPHANS AND WIDOWS. BE WARNED–BE READY. PLEASE SEE WIPHAN CARE MINISTRIES FOR MORE DETAILS
First–I want to say how much I appreciate the comments left on this morning’s post. How beautiful it is to know there are others out there who are in the SAME EXACT place and the Lord is doing the same things in your hearts…thank you for doing this journey of life with me and for your longing to be obedient to Him. Love you all.
Second…gonna keep it light with today’s reading…can’t miss a day! But first—the power of words. I have words all over my home. Every where. This is one that always makes me smile in our guest bathroom downstairs…I’m a fan of Uppercase Living:). And I’m also a fan of my label maker. I got a little crazy today in the playroom. I was thinking “word association” and labeled EVERYTHING…well, almost everything. The play frig, stove, oven, sink, dollhouse, clock…even the toilet…all have labels. Frank was napping, the older two were playing and I got OOC (out of control) with the label maker.
Then…during the kids bath-time. I got it back out. Rich is working late—so I thought it’d be fun for him to find this when he gets in and goes to brush his teeth:)…So…label makers aren’t just for labeling:). They can be for encouraging too:)
LENT DAY 3 – The Fall (Ornament: The Apple) We just got done discussing the Fall with the kids. Kids always amaze me what they remember. I stopped at the eating of the apple and just starting talking about how they disobeyed and how it’s so important to listen to and obey the Lord. I thought, “Okay, for a 4 and 5 year old…that’s enough.” Then Laney piped in and said I left out a bunch of stuff…and she proceded to tell the “rest of the story”. Wish I had that on video tape…”and momma, they had to work and work and work and WORK!” So true Laney. Oh how I wish I, too, didn’t feel like I needed to always know everything. I confess that I do—and I give this over to God. Help us to follow you Lord and not have to know anything other than Your voice.
One Year Scripture Reading – Leviticus 9 – 11:47
Thoughts on today’s reading…
9:5 – I love how the entire community is there for Aaron and the other sons commissioning. Such a beautiful picture of them being sent out into service.
9:24 “Fire blazed forth from the Lord’s presence and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the alter. When the people saw this, they shouted with joy and fell face down on the ground.” Can you imagine what this was like?! Did you know the Lord STILL works in MIRACULOUS ways TODAY?! Yes He does! He tells us in His word to watch and be amazed!!!
10:1-7 – Nadab and Abihu (Aaron’s sons) disobeyed–in every way…and a day that should have ended in worship ended with a funeral of two sons. They were the wrong people to be handling the incense. It was the wrong day to take insense to the Holy of Holies. They should have asked Moses, but they acted on their own. And based on what the Lord tells Aaron in verses 9-10 we get the impression that they were also under the influence. The same fire that just caused everyone to fall down on their knees in worship–came right back, consumed and killed Nadab and Abihu for their disobedience.
I think of Aaron being told by Moses just after this that he can not show grief of his two SONS and must stay in the Tabernacle…or he, too, will die. But inside he was dying. Aaron couldn’t even eat of the sin offering as he was hurt so—and explains to Moses in verse 19 why he couldn’t partake…”Then Aaron answered Moses, “Today my sons presented both their sin and offering and their burnst offering to the Lord. And yet this tragedy has happend to me. If I had eated the people’s sin offering on such a tragic day as this, would the Lord have been pleased?”
Aaron was saying here that going through the motions would not have pleased or honored God. That for him, it was better to not take of it. The Lord looks at the heart and wants OBEDIENCE not sacrifice.
Leviticus 11…Ceremonially Clean and Unclean animals. Is it just me or does anyone ever read chapters like this one and think, “Oh no…I just ate bacon?” Here are 3 facts that should be noted about the dietary laws:
1. They were for the Jewish nation.
2. They guaranteed ceremonial purity but not change in character.
3. These laws were temporary and were ended on the cross of Christ.
So…it’s okay to eat my bacon. I love bacon:).
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend…and hope those of you doing the Lent Tree with your sweet children are being blessed during your sweet time together. A friend of mine said she is putting the ornament for each day in a bag and letting her son open it…and each day is like Christmas morning to him! So fun! Just another way to make this activity a highlight in the day for your children!
XOXO,
Andrea
***They told me adoption was not for the faint of heart. And this post isn’t either. This is just my heart and where I am today. It’s not fluffy or pretty—it’s just real. It’s a part of our family’s faith journey…to look back and remember every question we asked and to later see how His perfect plan so beautifully would unfold…
Three years ago this month, the Lord led our hearts to Africa. I was sitting in Sunday school with Africa heavily on my heart. I was in the midst of a successful photography business—feeling led to do something different with the profits. And that’s when we heard Kevin share his story. Kevin had developed a friendship with a Zambian pastor years earlier when Timothy came to the US for a pastors conference and stayed in his home. During his stay–brothers were made between these two. Across the world, their friendship continued. Then one day, Timothy became very sick and died later of tuberculosis.
In Zambia, when someone dies–the community shuns the widow saying she is carrying the deceased ghost. Timothy’s family came and took everything his family owned, leaving his wife Kunda and their precious girls on the street. The Lord pressed Kevin to begin sending Kunda and her family money to live–and their live took a turn for the worse…from on the streets to abundance. She had money left over each month from what Kevin was sending her and she took that money to the compounds and began paying teachers to teach the orphans who were too poor to be schooled. This had been Timothy’s dream—and now it was going to begin through Kunda and Kevin. When Kunda told Kevin what she was doing, his curioustiy was too much and he traveled to see for himself. He took pictures and came home to tell the story…
Kunda and Kevin picture above
And that’s when we met. We heard the story, and hearts were immediately in. We started supporting Kunda’s mission—our ministry had doubled. My passion to photograph families grew as I had a new purpose. My heart began to live, eat, breath Africa—and in July 2007 Richard and I went over for ourselves to see the work. Every day 400 children were showing up to learn in old rented out mud church buildings. Rain or shine—they were there. When it did rain, the children would sit in the rain to learn. They were hungry for knowledge—for hope and a future. Approximately 100 widows showed up each day later to learn how to sew on sewing machines that had been purchased. The Lord was doing a great work…
Hope was being born in the lives of these widows and orphans–and we came home with a fire lit under our tail to build these kids what our hearts knew they deserved. A school with a roof over their heads. An opportunity to receive an education. A chance to hear the Word of God. A meal a day. We could not be quiet. The Lord raised up 3 other couples to join us. And without even going over yet–they too were in. Within just a handful of months, the money was raised–our non-profit status achieved–and we were building. It went from this…
To looking more like this…
God has been soooo good—and three years later we have TWO schools, a sponsorship program and regular trips going over FULL of people wanting to be a part of Wiphan Care Ministries! We are keeping these precious children off the streets, in their country and in many ways–helping foster families for them as they have teachers and other widows parenting them. So…with that—I come to the adoption front with a much different background. And for me, it makes some things a bit harder.
***STOP READING NOW IF YOU WANT IT TO REMAIN LIGHT, FLUFFY AND EXCITING. Oh, this part is still exciting—just depends on how you define the word. The Lord is really walking me through some things…and if you want to really know me and for this blog to be honest–well, this is part of it too. There are a couple of things that I’m not yet comfortable with–and this is what makes this adoption wait good for me (more time to process things ahead).
When we came into adoption, we had a picture in our mind what our child must look like. I say must as in—we assumed this is what every orphan “must” look like…we guessed. We pictured the double orphans (meaning no mom or dad alive) needing a home…with no family to care for them—oh but the Young’s would galliantly ride in and save a child…give him a home. And we would live happily ever after.
We heard the stats–145,000,000 orphans in the world—but of those approximately 100,000,000 have a mom or a dad still living. Best guess from UNICEF stats is approximately 40,000,000 double orphans out there…and we assumed ours surely must be one of those. BUT later we realized that many (maybe I’ll even say most) adoptions take place with a living parent who has given up their rights to keep their child due to poverty. Many of us want to turn our heads to the orphan crisis. But some of us also want to turn our heads to the statistic of mothers who desperately want to keep their babies, but feel they have no other choice because of their poverty. And while I can afford to adopt—A ITTY, BITTY PART OF ME WANTS TO DO THAT TOO…BUT THE LORD WON’T LET ME. And if I chose to adopt a baby with this story—I can’t NOT do something about it. It’s just not okay with me. I don’t want to just think of her every year or lose sleep over her at night. My heart wants to do more. My heart has no other choice. I can’t go to Disney world every year and smile with Mickey while someone across the world is hurting. After 3 years of learning Africa’s culture, I can’t take a baby from that either. When we chose to adopt a baby from Ethiopia–we knew it would mean more than just to dabble in the culture with fun meals and token outfits. We will make life-long commitments to in many ways to LIVE that culture. And we knew that coming in. This would mean MANY trips across the world with our baby. This would mean our family possibly learning another language. For us, this will mean a lot more than just growing our family. We having chosen to be orphan advocates–not just adoption advocates…and these are two seperate things. Some times they work together—but not always.
So…this is where I stand. Asking the Lord…”Where do the roads meet? Where does Wiphan—a ministry that keeps families together—and adoption come together for our story? The Lord continues to press on our hearts this verse: “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” James 1:27. I need my child to know that I not only fought for him, but I fought for EVERY avenue of him. I need him to one day read that I didn’t come in not considering EVERY avenue and praying for any other way. I have to search my heart—search my motives—and trust the Lord with what He shows me in the process. I am called to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep myself from being poluted by the world. I hear the opinions of friends. I hear the opinions of other adoption advocates. I hear the opinions of the world. But it is the Lord’s Word that matters. It is Him we as believers are called to be obedient to—no matter what. How O LORD do you want me to “look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep myself from being polluted by the world?”
So Lord…where do these roads meet? How can I make a difference in the lives of widows in Ethiopia so those who want to keep the babe of their hearts CAN? How will our adoption bring the most glory to Him? Can I really just walk away and live happily ever after? OR DO YOU WANT ME TO DO MORE??? And I don’t want to wrestle with these questions later…but I know I will. My eyes were open long ago to families like these…And maybe I’m a dreamer…but Wiphan was started on a dream—and 450 orphans and 150 widows later…it is thriving…offering hundreds of children a chance to grow in their cultures and make a difference in their worlds.
I wish I knew the end of our story. And I’m sorry that you have to see the hard part too. But today this is all I got. It is for our child to read and understand why we never gave up. And how this, too, was part of our journey to him. I wish I knew how those roads meet because I can’t walk away with what I know and have lived. Maybe it’s the beginning of a new ministry in Ethiopia. Maybe it will be through our child’s birth family where a ministry is begun. Maybe it’s to have an open adoption…a crazy commitment to a family across the world to actually do life together. God made a way for Moses—and it wasn’t easy…but the Lord also made change in this way through him. Maybe it’s opening my silly eyes that know and have seen so little to understand really what God is doing. I want to be obedient whatever it is. And it probably won’t make sense to the rest of the world…because that is often how my God seems to work…at least in my life anyway.
Give us direction Lord. Courage to be obedient. Faith to follow. And help me to live for You alone.
Whenever…wherever…however…Your will be done. Thanks family, friends, readers for being here with me even for the hard stuff. Our family covets your prayers as we are on this journey to do His will. I guess when I share the hard things you (my sweet readers) just become a little more a part of our story. Our journey and where the Lord takes us…will just be all the more meaningful that you walked through every avenue with us. Thank you for being a part…for still reading…and listening. I appreciate you and your prayers. I really do. Many of you may be on your own journey to adoption…each and every journey WILL look COMPLETELY different. Just be obedient to what the LORD CALLS YOU TO—don’t look at me, to the left or to the right—keep YOUR EYES FOCUSED ON HIM and be OBEDIENT to what HE calls YOU to. Don’t give up to the race He has called you to. And remember—He is ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS faithful.
The Sound of His Faithfulness…
Over and over again in the old testament as we have been reading together, we have seen God’s people build alters…stones of remembrance…that thank Him and honor His faithfulness in their lives. When they would pass it, they would remember how the Lord delivered. They would remember His faithfulness.
I have often thought of what that would look like today. To have little reminders in my home that remind me, too, of God’s faithfulness during my journey. After losing the necklace Richard gave me in the delivery room and finding it again months later—I am reminded again how He wants us to not only receive, but to also remember. So today…the children and I set out to find our stones…
And where might one (if you know me;) go to find such treasures? Well, Hobby Lobby of course;). As we walked the aisles, the four of us talked about God’s faithfulness and what treasure we could find to mark His faithfulness in our family’s journey. Parker said crosses. Laney said bells. And Frank—well, Frank just wanted the banana I had in my purse. And we needed to agree on the same thing, so throughout the years we could add to our beautiful collection representing His faithfulness.
I told the children that I needed something to “stand for” each of them—for the Lord had been so faithful to me to answer my prayers to be a mommy. Almost 13 years ago I knelt in my college apartment closet and as I prayed for my future children and begged God to one day pour His grace down and make me a mommy—I heard a baby crying. This isn’t a sound you hear after 9pm on a Wednesday night on Glenn Avenue in Auburn, Alabama. I have it marked in my journal, and I believe it was assurance from the Lord that He heard my prayer and to turn this request over to Him. So today, 13 years later as I walked the aisles with two preschoolers tagging behind and a toddler in my arms…we squatted together to discuss and tried to agree on crosses OR bells.
Then–a lady in a yellow jacket excused herself by us and as she did, her windchimes sung the sweetest sound. Parker and Laney looked at me and chanted, “Those mommy! We want those!”
“Outside?” I thought. I was really wanting to put this inside to remember, but immediately I thought about that old closet and I knew this was the perfect thing. Richard and I have been dreaming about a garden—and I can’t think of anything sweeter than sitting outside one day in our garden and HEARING the Lord’s faithfulness. Indeed, these would make great stones of rememberance! I let Parker and Laney each chose the windchime that they loved…and we all chose Frank’s for/with him:).While we drove home, we talked about how each windchime represented each child that God had given mommy, and as the Lord did great works in our family’s life—another windchime would be hung. (I know…I know—you are sad that you aren’t OUR neighbors, aren’t you?!) We were all so excited that we could hardly get home fast enough to hang them!
As the years go by, I know I will begin to recognize the different sounds. Which chimes belong to Parker…
…and which belong to Laney and Frank…and our future children. I was so excited over dinner telling Richard about our windchimes—imagining us sitting in that garden one day when all the kids are grown and gone…but we’ll hear the chimes…”Parker, Laney, Frank, our baby from Africa…a new opportunity chime, an unexpected miracle”…and as time goes on we will know each sound and what it represents. And this will be our song of His faithfulness.
Laney got the best of both worlds when she found a windchime that made bell sounds but was also a cross. She picked it out herself, and I couldn’t help but smile as I read it…Oh sweet girl—this is my prayer for you. What a sweet whisper from God to have her pick this one!
Psalm 36:5 “Your love O Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies.”
Lent Day Two: Ornament – The World (The Story of Creation)
If you are just reading my blog, we are walking through the 40 days of Lent by doing a Lent Tree. You can go to Crafts and look under Easter where you can download the ornaments we are hanging along with the scripture we will be reading with our family each night.
One Year Scripture Reading: Leviticus 7-8:36
Hang in their friends…today’s reading is another day of instructions for offerings and cleansings for the Israelites. The things that really stuck out to me most today as I read these chapters is how messy this all actually was. As I read Chapter 8 and tried to visualize Moses sprinkling oil all over the alter, sprinkling oil all over Aaron’s head, slaughtering a bull and pouring it’s blood on the base of the alter, and we haven’t even gotten to the part where he’s taking the fat out and burning it at the alter. Then out come the rams…it just isn’t pretty. I imagine priests getting ordained and I picture the black robes and holy water—but not this. But this is how the priests, the leaders of the church, were ordained. In this ordination, they were showing their submission to the Lord. And again we see the God of details who never leaves His people in the dark–He left them exact instructions for the ordination ceremony.
We are no longer the old covenant as Jesus Christ brought the new covenant and was the final sacrifice for our sin. Today’s church leaders are also offered clear instructions in God’s Word how to lead the church. Pray for those leading the church that they would be in God’s Word. We are given clear instructions how to live. This is why it is SO important for us to not give up on being in God’s Word. These chapters create in my heart a holy reverance for who God is and how I should come before Him.
Let us not give up on the reading of His Word!
The First Day of Lent…DAY 1 ORNAMENT: THE MUSTARD SEED
Ahhhh…Wednesday, February 17th! The day we have looked forward to so we can begin our Lent Tree (GO TO CRAFTS and scroll down to EASTER – LENT TREE to download our guide to do one yourself!) When the children wake up–we’ll begin our first day of Lent together…with the first ornament: a teeny, tiny mustard seed. Our scripture reading today with the children is short–Matthew 17:20. Short, but not simple. It is about faith. And faith we will need on this journey to the cross.
Matthew 17:20 says, “And He said to them, “Because of the littleness of your faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.” Oh Lord, will you give my little preschoolers faith for this journey with us. Oh that Your Holy Spirit would teach them and do a miracle in their great big hearts the Lent as we travel the Lent Tree journey together…
Now it sits empty…but in a few hours it will have a mustard seed. If we have faith the size of an itty, bitty mustard seed…then nothing will be impossible for us.OUR LENT TREE – LENT 2010
We found twigs from our own yard for our Lent Tree. We attempted spray painting it white–but found it much easier to paint it with white acrylic paint and sponge brushes. Two paint cans are needed if you spray paint only. Just a small amount of acrylic white paint and a single sponge brush is needed to paint it yourself. This would be a fun (and messy…but in a good way…fun/messy:) do to with your children!
For those of you without little ones at home or with wee ones too young to understand, consider doing this with your spouse! This is a worshipful way to walk through Lent together, and what fun it could be to treasure hunt each day for that day’s ornament. At the end, you’ll have a precious set to keep in a Hope Chest for that baby you have hoped for or even as a gift to a grandchild. Either way, the Lent Tree isn’t just for families with children. I think adults enjoy it just as much…if not more!
A quick dish….
Ever in a fix for a last minute meal? Having guests over but not much time…and you would have children of all ages coming too? Here is a quick dish that takes 5 minutes to prepare…10 minutes to cook and wa la! A Yummy Meal!
Glazed Apples and Ham
Ingredients:
2 lb Ham (already cooked and sliced) – [I couldn’t find a 2 lb-er…but 1.8 lb was close enough;)
1/2 cup orange marmalade (found in the jelly section…I actually used orange marmalade perserves…YUM!)
4 Granny Smith apples
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 teaspoon ginger
1. Combine ginger, butter and marmalade. Melt together in microwave. This is your yummy glaze.
2. Cut apple in half and remove core—then slice.
3. Spray/grease pan and alternate slices of ham with apples. Pour marmalade on top and spreak over ham and apples.
4. Bake at 375 for 10 minutes (or until apples are soft). YUM.
We served this with sauteed and baked brussel sprouts. Super yum! The kids can’t get enough of either of these!!! If you’ve not a brussel sprout fan, then you need my recipe!
Then for dessert tonight…Quick and Easy Tiramusu!
This was another quick and easy recipe…and it was altered by yours truly;)…and quiet YUMMY! I’ll be munching on this throughout the day. No, dessert isn’t my choice for fasting this Lent—it wouldn’t be right for a “paper pregnant momma” who is adoption anxious to fast chocolate of any sorts;).
So…that was our dish for the Denton family—some of our DEAR friends who we dine with EVERY Tuesday night! We’ve been doing “Dinner with the Denton’s” EVERY TUESDAY night for over TWO YEARS now! Rain or shine…snow or sleet…we are feasting together and celebrating life together. Even with crazy schedules, sports practices…our commitment to do life together still stands strong. VERY little of our lives are written without the Denton’s some how in it.. I love having families to do life with! Their oldest son, Jack, is Laney’s age–today when I picked her up from preschool she informed me…”Momma, I’m gonna marry Jack and live at our house.” Perfect. They’ve been plotting and planning for years now—Jack even proposed back in the summer of 2009 unexpectedly before one of our dinners. Yes, some how it was miraculously caught on tape even. There’s some tough competition for anyone coming between those two I’m afraid!
One Year Bible Study – Today’s Reading: Leviticus 4-6:30
Some things that jumped out at me in today’s reading…
Even if the people didn’t realize what they were doing was sin–they were still guilty (Leviticus 4). “But I didn’t know” wouldn’t work here. And ignorance never cancels guilt. Ouch. But it’s true. How many people don’t want to hear the truth because they think then they will be accountable for what they know? How many of us avoid digging into the world’s issues and problems for fear we might have to do something?
The sin offering—the higher the position of the sinner–the more expensive the sacrifice. Greater the priviledges, greater the reponsibility, the greater the consequences. And something amazing I read in a commentary–the sin offering had to be burned outside the camp because it was too holy to remain in an unholy camp. This was a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ who died “outside the city gate…outside the camp” as our sin offering”.
The rest of today’s reading classified which offering was to made for different sins. I can barely keep up! BUT for us—Jesus paid it all! ALL to Him I owe!!!
Warren Wiersbe says it this way….
“Jesus provides all that we need. He is our burnt offering, and we must yield ourselves wholly to Him.
He is our meal offering, the seed crushed and put through the fire, that we might have the bread of life,
and we must feed upon Him.
He is our drink offering who poured Himself out in sacrifice and service,
and we must pour ourselves out for HIm and for others.
He is our fellowship offering, making life a joyful feast instead of a painful famine.
He is our sin offering and our guilt offering, for He bore our sins on His body
and paid the full price for our sins.
“My soul magnified the Lord, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior!” Luke 1:46-47
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I am starting my support of Wiphan with prayers,a blue tshirt, and spreading the world on my side of the USA!! =)
Awesome! Must share on my blog, and I gotta have one of those blue shirts. It would be even more amazing to travel there someday. Thanks for giving us so much information on this ministry! Praying for it’s success.
Elle and Renea–thank you for spreading the word for these kiddos!!!!!!! SO THANKFUL!!!!
LOVE your heart!!! Love the disclaimer & LOVE the ministry!!! 🙂
Going to order my t-shirt right now and I’ll put a link on my blog!
just ordered shirts for the whole fam 🙂
i have been wanting to donate since this summer…but kept forgetting. love seeing what God is doing through the wiphan organization!!
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We’re going to order shirts for the whole family soon. Thank you for sharing about this ministry. I am really hoping that we can get involved with you. This speaks very deeply to my heart’s desire to bless both the widow and the orphan and to keep kids with their families if at all possible. I am very excited to learn more and to see what we can do. It inspires me what you have accomplished in such a short time by simple obedience and faith! I am hoping to share this ministry with our church as well.
LOVE the disclaimer! 😉 You’re too cute!