Seeing God as He Truly IS

The two single gals to whom I was assigned for my week in India teach English to Muslim women, and currently have about 35 students coming four days a week. They range in age from 16 to 50+ and were all very excited about the opportunity to learn English. They would come into the house completely veiled with only a slit for their eyes to see out, and leave the same way. But while they were there, since it was only women, we got to see their faces.
Underneath the veils are these precious women who smile, laugh and cry over the same things we do. They, like so many, are searching for the truth and waiting for someone to share Christ with them.

Our group of three also got to do some traveling north of that city. Once we arrived in the new town, three men who are believers picked us up, and they served as our guides during our stay. The best part was when they took us to each of their houses to meet their families and drink chai (tea). They lived out in this village, and it seemed like everyone in the village was following us from house to house. We would sit down to drink tea and people would be peering in every window and door. They were so excited to have us there and had us pray in each house we visited. I enjoyed the fellowship with these brothers and sisters more than any other part of the trip.

During my previous times of traveling and living in Asia, it was always hard for me to comprehend why I had so much materially speaking, and those with whom I was working had so little. I always wondered why God blessed me so much and didn't seem to bless them in the same way.

God clearly addressed that issue in my heart while I was in India. While spending time with these Christians, I saw that they valued two things far and above everything else: God and each other. They valued these two things so much that they had a joy about them even in their extreme poverty that I don't have despite my many possessions. In poverty, they have been able to see past the temporal and lay hold of the eternal in a way that seems to have eluded me. Somehow God seemed to be saying to me, "Don't question my love or blessing in the life of another." It may very well be that my brothers and sisters in Asia who have so little by the world's standards have actually received the greater blessing by being spared the distractions that keep me from seeing God as He truly is.

-Wendy

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