¿Quién de ustedes quiere hoy
dar una ofrenda a Dios?
~1 Crónicas 29:5
En un viaje reciente a Ghana, recorrí varias comunidades que participan en el programa NetsforLife®. Una vez terminada la visita a la última comunidad, todos se reunieron en un “durbar” para compartir algunas de sus historias conmigo. Al terminar las presentaciones, el dirigente se paró al frente del grupo para decir que tenía una cosa que darme.
Cuando me senté, el dirigente dijo que a pesar de tener un regalo para mí, se sentía muy incómodo, pues era muy pequeño. Me dijo que habría querido darme un elefante como gesto de agradecimiento, pues era el más grande regalo que podía imaginar para mostrar lo importante que fueron los mosquiteros para su comunidad.
Sin embargo, no me dieron un elefante. En su lugar, recogieron todos los huevos puestos en aquel día y me los dieron.
Los huevos eran toda la riqueza del pueblo para ese día. Era todo lo que tenían, y quisieron compartir lo conmigo–verdaderamente una viva teología de la abundancia en un lugar de escasez.
¿Cómo podemos hacer menos que eso?
~Robert W. Radtke
Who then will offer willingly,
consecrating themselves today to the Lord?
~1 Chronicles 29:5
On a recent trip to Ghana I toured several communities participating in the NetsforLife® program. Once the final community visit was complete, everyone gathered to share some of their stories with me at a “durbar.” At the end of the presentations, the leader came forward to say that he had a presentation to make to me.
As I sat down, the leader said that although they had a gift to give to me they were very embarrassed, as it was such a small gift. He told me that they had wanted to give me an elephant as a gesture of thanks, as that was the grandest gift they could imagine presenting to show how important the malaria nets were to their community.
However, they weren’t able to give me an elephant. Instead they had decided to collect all of the eggs laid that day and present them to me.
The eggs represented the entire village’s wealth for that day. It was everything they had, and they wanted to share it with me–truly a living theology of abundance in a place of scarcity.
How can we do any less?
~Robert W. Radtke
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