As I mentioned before, our group in North Africa had great opportunities to be lights for the gospel with the translators we worked with in the clinic. Unlike the individual patients we saw, we were able to spend time with the same translators each day through our clinic and sharing meals. They were able to not only see a glimpse of our team, but also our motives, attitudes, and personal lives.
At the end of our two weeks in North Africa, one of the our translators labored to write this sweet poem for our team.
I want to highlight the part that says, "I was sitting alone, thinking about the pain, the future seems dark, wishing death comes fast..." This is a reflection of life without the hope of heaven. How sad.
But, as you can read above, the poem closes with, "Everyone smiles...they examine me with a big love...the doctor was an angel." What contrast this is! This was our prayer. Matthew 5:16 says, "Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven." We continue to pray that our medical work in North Africa wouldn't be seen as good moral deeds, but that it would point the people to Someone Greater than us. Join me in pleading before the Lord for the hearts of the Berber people whose "future seems dark".
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