One of the beautiful things that Jesus taughts us by His example while here on earth, was the opportunity to serve one to another. I was blessed to put it into practice yesterday. A group of missionaries friends from Calvary Chapel in the city at Boston MA, were here in Florida for a few hours while waiting for their next flight to Peru to depart in the late afternoon hours. They headed to a beach section at the Las Olas boulevard in Ft Lauderdale to do a drama skit and one to one evngelism. Before their trip, I had spoken with their team leader, my friend Greg about if there was anything I could help them with. Besides a few geographical details, he mentioned if I have or could find a wooden cross for their planned skit. I told him yes and indeed after speaking with my pastor at my home church, he offered me to borrowed it. Then Graig asked about a battery run cd player and I told him sure, why not use mine. The only problem was that the speakers were too small and the sound was not as loud as they had wanted to. So after asking a few people around my church, I was told that the worship leader at my church might own a karaoke cd player. I said excellent. And indeed after asking him for it, he ended up lending it to me. Things were working out for me and them. Then I thought to myself, my friends will be waking up so early in the morning perhaps without even having breakfast to catch their first flight, they will be hungry and probably thirsty after finishing the event at the beach, so I decided to make some ham, turkey with cheese sandwiches, borrowed a cooler, filled it up with drinking bottle of water, some coke cans and a few bananas and what a blessing it was for them. They really needed it that left me with none not even for myself, haha. (I realized later that I was thirsty too). But despite that, the joy of having being able to provide for them all what I could afford, overcame the few obstacles I was dealing on my way back to work (getting lost for a bit, the banging of the towell being there as a cushion between the roof of my car and the wooden cross by the force of the wind, getting wet in the shower storm that we encountered and else). Jesus said, " And whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because of my name, because you are my children, will never loose His reward" Mark 9:41. Paul said "Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically, as something done for the Lord and not for men, not expecting anything in rewards for our father in Heaven looks at the heart" Collossians 3:23. Thank You Lord for being an instrument in your hands. May the Lord bless and protect the Boston team while in Peru.
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