The Real Secret to Being Healthy: Multivitamins for Your Weekend

So, the last two days, I’ve been struggling with this hounding fever,

this sickness chilling up the underside of bones.

And hey, who knows if you pick up something when you walk through slums, when you step over sewage and the bloated bones of who knows what –

a dog? a rat? the bones of God?

Or maybe you get this sick when you’re sick of your cheap grace that veneers toxic up over all these social ladders, these American dreams of upward mobility that leaves Jesus rotting forgotten with the poor.

Jesus rotting with the poor while we turn the worship music up louder and fill the pews on Sunday morning with all our polish and talk of Gospel.

Or, yeah — maybe the fever is finally the holy fire waking in your brittle bones, the live and glowing amber taken in tongs and laid upon your lips swollen with stuff that will burn up in nauseating fires of their own.

The repentance comes like a relieving healing:

God’s people are God’s plan for ending poverty — and He doesn’t have another plan.

Who knows what you pick up in the slums but maybe your hand picks up the hand of Christ’s in a child?

And you feel the purifying amber burn away the materialistic dross and straw —  till all that’s rightly left is love.

So you can find yourself finally standing strong on Sunday, singing this worship that isn’t cheap emptiness —

because you reached out to the weak and did not turn away from your Jesus whom you call Lord.

Will you reach out right now? These children desperately need someone to not turn away

We don’t want to deny anyone the joy of being part of this Guatemala Dump Miracle —

Pray for just one of these children today?

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