We’d rather collapse a couple of times before receiving
help from others.
Something in us keeps us resisting love.
We’d rather be making it through life on our own, than
depend on alms from others.
I remember a friend and a fellow missionary Zsuzsa,
who used to work as a specialist on Oriental Carpets.
With her hands she could fix the small nuts and get the
patterns back in order. She was a professional
conservationist.
Then, suddenly, her husband died and she herself became
sick with arthritis. It crippled her body up to a point when she
could not move herself.
We met her in a hospital in Budapest.
She feared and respected God, but didn’t know Jesus
personally.
She was bitter towards God.
One of our girls shared the Gospel with her and her life
changed. She became a living epistle.
In the time of her trials she often told me,” I’m learning
to receive”.
Then, against everybody’s efforts to stop her, she became
a missionary and moved to Baku, Azerbaijan.
Her little, poor apartment became a center of action.
She was just lying on the bed and fellowshipping with Jesus.
It looked so unproductive, but hundreds of people found
comfort and encouragement in prayer and fellowship
by her bed side.
Then she became blind.
She said,”I’m learning to receive”.
Now she depended on others even for her reading.
She was so rich.
Then she died.
Her grave site in Baku is one of the most
beautiful places in the world.
Righteousness is a gift from God.
It cannot be achieved, merited nor paid for.
It simply means that the man who believes in Jesus,
becomes in Him
all that God requires a man to be. (Rm.4:3)
Self-righteousness is an oxymoron.
It’s a lie that promotes pride and always hinders us from
receiving.
It is the kind of goodness that looks very acceptable, but
in reality it separates people from God.
It’s sinful goodness.
So often even believers try to impress God with their goodness
in stead of pleasing him through faith.
Only by receiving from him can we become good men
in the true meaning of the word.
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