Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Someone more good than I

Today I was thinking about a conversation I had with one of my friends about their aunt who had adopted a boy from another country.  The boy ended up having health problems and for a while they weren't sure they were going to make it.  Well, this same aunt is looking to adopt another child from another foreign country.  This child has some serious known health problems.  I thought to myself "what a martyr, they are doing this just to ease their conscience" but you know what dawned on me today as I thought about all this?  Maybe, just maybe, there is someone out there in the world that is genuinely more good than I am.  It's interesting to me, yet not entirely surprising, that I am so egocentric and think so highly of myself that I can't imagine there are people that good in this world.  I can understand adopting a child from another place but logically I don't understand why you would adopt one with known health issues.  But "logically" is the problem, this is a matter of their hearts and sometimes I frankly don't have much of one.  I am pretty jaded sometimes.  I do have a heart, but sick children I guess is not my calling.  The elderly, ignorant, disabled and underprivileged are more of my calling.  Just because I don't understand someone else's calling though doesn't make it any less good, genuine or important.  Because I don't understand what the other hand of the body of Christ is doing, I don't simply cut it off or mutilate it or run it down.  I am not to judge and my conscience has convicted me that I was judging and this is not my place.  I respect them and their calling, I hope that my eyes have been opened to my hypocrisy and that I become a better man for it. 

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