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Racial Reconciliation / 10.01.08, 03:28 PM
When a samaritan woman approaches a well Jesus was at, Jesus asked her for a drink. Jews didn’t talk to samaritans. So the woman was surprised because not only did Jesus talk to her. He asked her for a drink. He immediately reconciled the differences between the two. It resulted in changing her life. The other day we were walking to the laundromat and a man named James asked us for $1.50 to buy a sandwich. We told him he could walk with us to the laundromat and then we would go buy him a sandwich. He helped carry some of our laundry. James ended up hangin’ out with us all day. We all became friends. Well some of the people I was with were splitting up and three of them went home. James helped carry some of the laundry back with them. I stayed behind and finished some more laundry with two others. Then a man told us he needed 8 bucks to catch a train. We are only given 60 bucks a month for each individual living in our house and we are not allowed to give out money but we can specifically buy things for people. Well the train station was really far away and we couldn’t walk to it to buy him a ticket.
We had to let him down but we told him wed pray for him. It seemed like to him that we didn’t trust him. I felt really bad. Well we went back home and the James was just leaving. After my other two teammates went inside I decided to ask James for some advice. I talked to him and told him why we were in this city. And I told him about how it seems like Jesus helped every person in need that he came across. I asked James how he thought I could have helped the man wanting the train ticket. He gave me his advice which was something like I cant help everybody. And then he said he was so glad that he met us that day. He said he was going to check himself into detox that night. He asked me to pray for him. Then I asked him to pray for me too. He started to cry when I asked him to pray for me. He told me this whole story about all this bad stuff that happened in his life. He said “ Ya know when King Herod killed all the baby boys to try and kill Jesus. It was a bad day. But it was scripture being fulfilled. Ive had a lot of bad days. But because I met you guys today, scripture has been fulfilled.” Then he told me to pray for him as soon as I started to walk back toward my house. He was walking the other way and I said alright but make sure you pray for me while your walking the other way. And he said he would.
I didnt think I was above James because he didnt have money or that he was homeless. I tried my best to approach the situation with an empty cup and learn from the man and show him that we are equal and I asked him for advice and then asked him to pray for me. O and he also helped carry our laundry. I learned a lot from James. But more importantly I learned a lot from God. Because of God we are all equal. Next time you are helping someone make sure you are not putting yourself above them. Jesus became the very nature of a servant. He didn’t act like a servant. He didn’t look like a servant. He became a servant.
I cant explain to you the feeling of someone saying to me that scripture was fulfilled because he met us. But I prayed for James out loud with a huge smile on my face when I started to walk the other way. And then I started praising God. He is so awesome. To know that I could be doing things like this all year just because God wants to use my life is unbelievable. He is so amazing. The way he works is beyond our knowledge and understanding. I want to ask everyone that reads this to pray for James right now. And then to praise God because he is at work. He is at work in Camden and he is at work wherever you are. And if there are aliens somewhere out there in the universe, he is at work in them too. Give thanks to our amazing Father in Heaven.
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