As a little girl, Indira was severely burned when scalding cooking oil was accidentally splashed on her chest. Many plastic surgeries later, her life was spared, but scars remain. Cross-stitch, the network of ELS Women’s Mission Societies, raises funds to provide higher education for young women who are members of the Lutheran Mission of Salvation – India. Can you guess what course of study Indira, a recipient of this loving support, pursued? Nursing! It seems that the blessings of medical care she experienced as a child moved her to want to care for others in a similar way.
Indira may be an example of how we might naturally respond to God’s blessings. Isaiah wrote of Christ that “By his stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53).” Of course this is not a reference to physical healing, which may leave scars, but rather to God’s grace in Christ and the forgiveness of our sin, a healing so complete and final that no scars need remain on our conscience. Our response to the Physician of the Soul? To share with others that through our Savior’s life, death and resurrection, he won forgiveness for our sin, life with God and our home in heaven. There the pain and scaring of our fallen sinful human nature are eternally remedied. God “will wipe every tear from (our) eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain . . . (Revelation 21).”
(The ELS relationship with The Lutheran Mission of Salvation – India is conducted by the Asia Committee of the Board for World Outreach.)
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