Thursday, June 11, 2009

To sell or not to sell, that is the question

We have not fully decided yet but we have been thinking about what to do with our house.
We originally thought it would be wise to rent it out and that way we would be getting some income from it to help us out in India. It seems like the good thing to do practically.

While we have been thinking about this a very interesting thing happened. Please bear with me as I try to bring you up to speed.
David had been to his aunties funeral. That week in church a friend of ours asked how it had gone. David replied that it was very Lutheren. Our friend Steve replied that he had a lot of time for the lutherens because when he first became a christian a Lutheren girl had helped him out.
It turns out that this girl had boarded with David's family and that Steve had been to David's house about 17 years ago. He then realised that it must have been David that gave him his first bible. It was so exciting to find out this connection after 7 years of knowing Steve.

A few days later, David went to prayer meeting while I stayed at home with a sick kid. Steve came and gave David the bible that had David's name written in the front.
Meanwhile, I was at home reading the book "Through gates of splendor" I came across one part when one of the characters was telling of how he came to move to Equador, he talked about the verse in the bible that says
"And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life."

I sat thinking over this verse and really began to feel God is wanting us to sell our house. I feel we need to make a complete breaking off from the things back here. I do not beleive this verse says either way but as I was pondering on this verse that was my thought process.
Not long after David arrived home. He was so excited because he had just been given his old bible back. I took the bible and looked inside. There was his name but even more, there was a page of verses David had jotted down some 17 years ago. Then right at the bottom something caught my eye. It said my name and Mark 10:29. I had a wee laugh with David and we decided to see what the verse was and of course it was the verse I had just been pondering on in regards to our house. Mmmm, coincidence? I think not.

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