Today was spent working in a Tibetan women's bakery, ChhiTo MiTho, Bekah, Leah and I are working to help develop. The women are beautiful and so much laughter goes on throughout the day! The three ladies you see here are believers and have such a passion for loving and serving people for Christ's cause. Our role in the bakery is not to come along side them and make it foreigner ran! Rather, our role is to encourage and work to help them expand the business so more women can get involved- and hopefully evangelism and discipleship will begin to take place.
Our Fridays consist of working with these women baking cookies for the Saturday and Sunday markets! They begin baking around 10:30 am and it often takes until 5 pm for the cookies to be packaged and the kitchen to be cleaned up.
Also on Friday, a bible study that two AMAZING girls, Haleigh and Lyndsay, began takes place. Today was our second day to join and the scripture studied was Matthew 8:1-27. Though the women primarily speak Nepali in the study, it was evident that they all had great questions about scripture and its meaning. A portion of scripture that was questioned and really stuck out to me was verse 19-20:
Then a teacher of the law came to him and said, 'Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.' Jesus replied, 'Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.'
Haleigh spoke such truth when she told the women how it is tough to follow Jesus! After the teacher said, "I will follow you" Jesus warned him that it is not easy, even animals have some things better than Him! Following Jesus is not about being comfortable, supported and fickle. It is about surrendering our all and giving Him the first fruits of our lives.
Scripture I found that related well to the idea of giving up everthing for His cause is Phil 3:7-10:
But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death...
Paul in his writting, of Phillipians, is always so enouraging to us despite his condition of prision. He really did live for Christ and consider everything else rubbish. The point Jesus brought up of following him, and the point Paul made, seems to be such an unfathomable goal. My head has a hard time wrapping aroung the concept of loss is gain. I admire Paul when I read his stories and his letters. What great example he gives to live life as if everything is loss for the sake of Christ!
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