Christ took on flesh… when I think about that it amazes me that Christ gave up heaven for the sake of his people on earth. 🌏 He gave up perfection to be with us sinful people. He died a horrible death only to defeat it for our sake! Praise be to him!

4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,[a] 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,[b] 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,[c] being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. -Phil 2:4-8

I’m saying all this because this month it was brought to my attention on how much fear can guide you and how that looks to the people. The unsaved are always watching us. I want to be more like Christ as I’m among the people … shaking their hand, sitting with them, eating with them, helping them medically and obviously telling them of the Good news of Christ and what He can do for them. The perfect Son came from heaven to be with us, eat with us, sit with us, to die for us. I say all this because I am reminded that the Lord wants us to do things that would be out of our comfort zone! He stretches us in ways that we would think are almost impossible.

To be with others who are culturally different then you is extremely hard at first but the more you are with them the more things seem to become a more “normal.” I would say that after 11 years being in PNG as well as almost 7 years in my village, that I am now starting to feel like I am able to be “one” of them at least to an extant. Show Christ in all you do, remember that as Christians we are being watched and we NEED to reflect Christ in our daily lives!