Tom and Becky Young Using technology to connect YOU with churchplants among unreached people groups Becky and I have a fellow co-missionary and friend who recently found out she has breast cancer. In an attempt to heal her body, she is doing the Gerson Therapy (www.gerson.org/​GersonTherapy/​gersontherapy.htm), which basically requires that one detoxify their body through, among other things, organic vegetable juices and other processes. Bottom line is she needs to do juicing 13 times a day, as well as coffee enemas numerous times daily. The amount of work involved in dong all this is overwhelming, so some loved ones set up a schedule whereby others can volunteer to do the juicing, clean veggies, and brew coffee. I wanted to help, so I signed up for veggie washing and coffee brewing for three days in a row this past week. I learned a lot- not so much about washing and brewing, but about service. It startled me…because I guess I always thought of myself as pretty much a servant and had a handle on what it meant to serve. Either I lost the essence of it or I was wrong. But here is what the Lord showed me:
Service is always easier (and maybe less effective) when it’s convenient for ME. While washing veggies is no big deal, washing a full cooler of them, plus making sure they are properly dried and stored is- in fact it took me two hours to do it each time. That’s a lot of time standing in front of a sink; time I could have spent doing other things. But the sheer volume of the daily work required (of which I only did a fraction) to prep for the therapy would have been thrown back either on this lady or one of her already-pressed-to-the-limit family. Sure it was a burden, but isn’t that what we’re called to do by Christ- bear one another’s burdens? So it only seemed right to get engaged.
