Stretching

So we’ve been in India for over a week now and my heart has been pretty much all over the place. I’ve been stretched past what I thought was my capacity to love- and though hard, it has been so beautiful.

As a team we have made it a priority to come together as a body every morning on our rooftop overlooking the town and experience the presence of God in a variety of ways. The other morning, God gave me some insight into what He sees in this team of girls. As we were reading through Ephesians God spoke, 

“RATHER, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into Him who is the head, into Christ, from which the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.” Ephesians 4:15-16

The past week we have been going to the special needs orphanage and sitting with precious orphans that were left to die in train stations, bus stations, and on the streets. It is an overwhelming place to walk into with over 100 orphans begging for someone to come sit with them, rub their back, hold them, and stretch their limbs as a lot of them are immobile. I sat for over an hour with one precious baby girl named *shelly ( 4 years old)  stretching her legs. At first she didn’t like the idea of me moving her legs and working the muscles but soon enough we were sitting there laughing as I moved her body and stretched her limbs.

From doing ministry that day the Lord gave me insight into what He wants of our team and body of Christ. Right now we look pretty weak- we have been comfortable in our ways independently, and now we are seeing what it looks like to function in community together as a body of Christ. Our muscles are being stretched as we learn what it looks to seek God and work as one body but I am so sure that the Lord will build us into a strong body that will be used to change India.