My heart is overflowing with gratitude to God for everything!
Recently I watched a TV program about a group of researchers who went to Mozambique to explore small badgers. This program was dedicated to these unusual animals but I wasn’t interested in them; my attention was caught by the Bushmen people with who the researchers group was staying. This people are very special! God showed me through them that I am not fully thankful to Him!
Bushmen have big families. Every family has its own territory which has its water sources. Life of this people is very hard. If they travel and are far from the water source the only way fit them to have some drink is frogs’ belly! Just for the sake of one sip of water during the heat weather they must dig a hole by the tree and find a frog. While I was watching it my heart started to get filled up with deep gratitude for the fact I live in a country that has running water in our homes! I don’t struggle with thirst and mustn’t look for water sources or frogs to get some drink. What I have to do is simply open the water tap…
I am not talking about what they eat. I didn’t see any bushman eating grub warms and murmuring saying that he is tired of this kind of life and willing something else. I am very thankful to God for showing me these things. I really can thank Him for giving me food which is attractive outwardly, tasty, nourishing and mostly important — various.
So often I satisfy my sweet tooth with candies, chocolate, cakes! But for Bushmen sweets are honey ants, wild bees honey which they gain by hard ways. For me this is very easy — just closest store; and no need to look for ants!
Hunting and fishing is an adventure for us but for Bushmen it is different. They don’t have any suiting gears nor clothes. In order to catch some fish they fill their “boats” (which are hardly to be called boats) with stones to fight away crocodiles and hippopotamuses and only after that they are able to set nets. Fish which they catch with lots of efforts is smoked and exchanged for some life necessities (clothes, spears, etc…).
Thanks be to God for my life! I have everything for life: I am well clothed, I live in a comfortable apartment with I need and even more!
I know God and can have fellowship with Him and this is the most important! I pray to God for this people to get to know God. I pray for people that preach the gospel to come to this people and tell them about the Salvation. I haven’t find any information about evangelizing this people.
I understand they are not the only people that need God but I ask everybody whose heart is being touched by this message to pray to God for this people. And may every one’s heart be thankful!!!
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