Ahava Love Letter
"Fell...But Helped Back Up"
Dear family of friends,
Falling off a camel hurts. Especially with glasses on, and then hitting a blacktop surface. I know. I did it.
Seven years ago this month I had the joy of being on the Christian Friends of Israel tour. As a board member for many years, we each took turns going on the annual event, usually in May. On this particular “Meet The People” trip in 2004, when the bus stopped near Beersheva in the Negev Desert, I didn’t pass up the chance to get on the back of a camel. Now I have a story to tell my grandkids. I can even smile more about it these years later.
Upon picking myself up, and after getting cleaned up a bit, with soap and some other medication to help the healing process more quickly, I was able to get back on the bus and move on. Pride had been dampened somewhat, but the extra attention wasn’t bad. Next time I will work on my dismount a bit better. Or at least I’ll know that when his head goes down for the landing that I better hang onto something more than just the back of his neck. Maybe his tail?!
The one thing I did appreciate about the whole fallen event though was the help I was given. The “nurse” in the group did her best to do her thing and bandage me up. That was nice. To be in a place where there are others around who do give of themselves to help another in time of need.
My heart goes out to those who don’t have that person, or a people, surrounding them, after a fall. A spiritual fall I mean. Often it seems when a brother or sister trips up or goes astray, the ones they need the most may be the ones who they see the least later. How tragic that can be in our Christian family. It shouldn’t be that way.
In these coming dark days before us, the works of our common enemy will heat up. The devil, as a roaring lion, will further seek to destroy the reputations and characters of believers in Jesus, sometimes using those we thought we could trust the most. Especially at that time, we must be prepared to speak the truth in support of each other.
Healing from injuries, after falling off a camel, can come quickly. But recovering from the hurtful darts and arrows thrown by other believers may take years to be forgiven and forgotten. We need to use our shields to guard one another as much as it is in our power to do it.
As in the natural in Israel, surrounding enemies continually shoot rockets of harm at them, aimed at their destruction. In the spiritual, we also are targets of weapons formed against us. May we not be found guilty of them coming from within our ranks.
We will need to support each other, even if we fall seven times. Getting back up and staying in the fight to the end with happen, if we are there for each other.
Ahava to all my family of friends,
Steve Martin
Founder/President
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Thanks for sharing. Blessings on your head from the Lord Jesus, Yeshua HaMashiach.
Steve Martin
Founder
Love For His People
Charlotte, NC USA