May 6, 2017

Greetings My Friend, Junior and I were doing our weekly Bible study lesson and we found ourselves in a conversation relating how we both have felt like were in front of people but we were not seen. I know I worked at being unseen so I would not get yelled at or hit. All of sudden Junior stopped the discussion and had me write down 3 statements "Some don't matter, some are over looked and some are insignificant." Next Junior told me to think about these statements and I sat there bewildered. Junior said the lesson was over until I had thought about these statements. When Junior walked away I sat there befuddled then I picked up my Bible and began my daily reading through the Bible. Amazingly I found the answer in my daily reading in 2 Corinthians " Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, the Jesus Christ is in you?-unless indeed you fail to meet the test! I hope you will find out that we have not failed the test. But we pray to that you may not do wrong - not that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do what is right, though we may seem to have failed. I felt the Holy Spirit teaching me that I have work in reaching out to those who don't matter, are over looked and are insignificant because I was once shown I don't matter, was was insignificant and over looked. I felt compelled to talk to Junior at this point. He feels that we have a need to reach those that are not "seen and noticed" around us beginning at church and then reaching out into the community. I have felt we were heading toward this type of ministry for some time now. When we first moved down here we met a young man in our neighborhood who had not worked, was the 2nd generation in his family that did not work so Junior felt led to ask him to help us out so Junior could teach him a few skills, later we befriended his mother and still later we have met others who are not in the mainstream of society. Right now we are needing some help with some electrical work on our home and we know a gentleman who has not worked in sometime but has had training in electrical work. We are asking him to help us out and we are developing a friendship with him and his girlfriend. I don't know where this relationship will take us, time will tell. We seem to find people as we do our daily lives, some are in our church, others are in our community but I sense Jesus is guiding people to cross our path. We finished our conversation with recalling that Jesus did not reach out to the people who were not "seen" in the community of His day. He ministered to those who were lost, lonely and hurting and I feel if Jesus cared about these people He also wants us to reach out to them as well. May God bless you and keep you make His face shine you. Love Janet