Today I start my official life as a "blogger" by talking about people from another world. This last week my wife Peggy and I began hosting two Korean students on a foreign exchange program here in Moses Lake, Washington and I have been reminded of how much we are regularly in need of people from another world.
It is not all about me, myself and I and my four and no more! The world does not revolve around the good ol' USA or the good ol' DOUG SHERMAN AND HIS PLANS AND GOALS! God's world and His kingdom is much bigger than my puny, little, myopic and self-centered world and kingdom!
People, (like the two precious students we are hosting in our home) are valuable and have their own stories which, incidentally, are every bit as interesting as mine ever was or will be. Many times in the last several years as I have traveled to Russia, Finland, Hong Kong, the Philippines and my corner gas station, I have been struck by the fact that all of the people that I pass have a story, rather a HIStory of their own which would be fascinating to just sit and listen to.
As I complain about the price of gas and the low attendance at the church I pastor, a great big orb full of people from another world are living, loving, fighting, struggling, grieving and trying to scratch out their own sense of purpose and significance right in their own back yards. I wonder, do they struggle with the me, myself and I syndrome as much as I? The Bible I read says they do, and that the only hope to be set free from this horrible sense of self absorption is a wonderful person named Jesus Christ and His wonderful gift called the Gospel of Grace. My hope is that we would all regularly have people from another world invade our homes and lives!
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