This past week we have been visiting a care point unlike any other carepoint I?ve ever seen.
It?s across from the dump in Manzini.
This part of the city is poverty ridden and basically disgusting.
Since I?ve been doing ministry over seas, and specifically in Africa,
I?ve seen a good bit of poverty? but nothing quite like this.
These children literally live in filth.
They smell like urine,
They always have a runny nose
And they?re covered in dirt.
This would make most people hard to love, but not these kids.
As soon as we show up to the carepoint they are all smiles, they just want to be held and loved.
In many ways this carepoint is gross,
you feel like you need to take a shower as soon as you leave?
But these kids are impossible not to love.
Over the past week this carepoint has taught me a lot about myself.
As a human I am born in to the filth that is sin.
Compared to Jesus Christ I am absolutely disgusting.
I am dirty because my flesh seeks sin and will for the rest of my life,
but Christ is strong in me.
?I am just like these children.
Disgusting, living in the gutter of the ways of this world.
But Jesus Christ loves us anyway.
Even though we?re gross.
Not only does he love us anyway, but HE DIED FOR OUR FILTH!
That blows my mind.
Jesus loves me just like I am,
A child of the gutter.
Please continue to pray for these children and my team!
To The Ends Of The Earth,
-Gene?
