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I learned a lot last week in the jungle. Thanks to God, I won’t ever be the same . . . for the better. God amazed me last week. With his creation. With his forgiveness. With his mercy. With his power.

Last year a this team came to Peru for the first time to visit the Yagua tribe. In a village called Nueve de Octubre (9th of October . . . probably the date it was founded) they met a woman very near death. Her intestines were eaten up with parasites and a few weeks earlier she had had a very complicated birth which made things a lot worse. She layed on the dirt floor as they prayed for her healing. Her two young children along with the baby were there too. That’s were God laid it on their hearts to bring doctors down next time . . . maybe Sarah would still be alive. Sarah wasn’t alive when we arrived February 6th . . . neither was her baby.

As we set up the medical clinic, Norvel (the team leader) carried in Trina. Trina is Sarah’s daughter. Trina and her brother now live with their blind grandmother. Trina, the day before, had dropped hot water on her feet as she was trying to cook. Trina is 6 or 7 years old.

The doctors cleaned her foot with water. They cut into the blister that had covered most of her foot to drain the fluid. They pulled off the loose skin. Trina never flinched. She never cried. She never spoke.

I couldn’t help to think of the fact that the pain she felt from that burn was nothing compared to what she had been feeling since her mom had died. And I couldn’t help thinking about God’s mercy. How he sent two of the best trained doctors in the world to take care of her burned feet. How he sent a group of His kids to hug her, to tell her that Jesus loves her, to tell her that everything was going to be ok.

That night we met to talk about the day. Norvel sobbed. His heart was broken. He wanted to do so much for that little girl. “I had to lay her on the dirt floor, right where we left her mother last time.” he said.

The Lord raises the poor from the dust, and he lifts the needy from the ashes. He lets the poor sit with princes and receive a throne of honor. 1 Sam. 2:8

What a wonderful maker. What a wonderful Saviour.