Recycling

This pile of cans was in the back of a roadside restaurant. The normal method of recycling on Sumatra is to have women picking through the garbage in front of your house and throwing your garbage all over the front yard. While you don’t want to discourage the women from making money for their families, it is often frustrating to have to pick up and re-bag your garbage. Perhaps that is the reason that many people on Sumatra burn their garbage, but that brings up an entirely different frustration!

I wonder if the Lord feels that way with His children. He gathers up the garbage in our lives, cleans us up, and forgives us. The next thing He knows we are back in the garbage bag pulling out stuff and making a mess. It is a good thing that God is far more patient with us than we are with the people around us.

Pray for workers to have love and patience for the lost and messy peoples of Sumatra.

Pray for workers to have humble hearts willing to endure much for the opportunity to share the Gospel.

Pray for the peoples of Sumatra to encounter the love of God that gathers up the garbage of their lives, cleans them, and forgives them so that they can become members of His family.