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Day 2 When Bernie May was the head of Wycliffe Bible Translators he visited a young family in a Muslim nation. This missionary family had been there three years, working with a people group who had no knowledge of Christ. This couple had three children under five years old. The baby was covered with pox marks, some of which looked infected. Mr. May asked if the child had chicken pox. “No, those are ant bites,” the mother said. “We can’t keep the ants off him. Eventually, he will become immune to them.” In a moment of honesty she confessed she felt guilty because she was suffering from stress. Stress! She and her young husband came there from mid-USA. Now they live in a place where the temperature is above 100 degrees most of the year. The children are covered with bites; a war is going on close by; their helpers are in danger for being their friends; many in the villages are suffering from hunger and disease; they can’t even let their supporters know what they are doing so that they can pray for them, since they are in a “critical” area — and she feels guilty because she is under stress. She had every right to feel stressful. Bernie May had only been their three days and was already beginning to come unglued. Yet, this dedicated young couple are laughing and joking and filled with the joy of the Lord. First Peter is a letter mainly about how to be like that. #247daily
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