Zebra Ministries

Good morning Zebras,

After yesterday’s post you probably have a pretty good idea how odd I have become.

I told my daughter it would be easier for me to live in the wilderness dressed in camel hair and eating honey than it is wandering around looking like everyone else.  It must be how people with a hidden infirmity feel.  Everyone expects them to behave “normally” but they can’t.

Matthew 3:1–10 In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the Desert of Judea and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.” … John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.  People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.  But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?  Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.  And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.  The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

This would not have been my first choice for a ministry.  But as Oswald said today:” As long as you maintain your own personal interests and ambitions, you cannot be completely aligned or identified with God’s interests.  This can only be accomplished by giving up all of your personal plans once and for all, and allowing God to take you directly into His purpose for the world.”

I love you Zebras, with a love given to me by God and it is why I do what I do, so that God’s people who are passionate for His name can be encouraged and so that those who are off-track can repent and change. 

Love,

Jill