Camel hair and locusts
John wore a camel-hair habit, tied at the waist with a leather belt. He ate locusts and wild field honey. –Mark 1:6
How welcome would John be in your church today?
’Cause you know he’d be stinkin’, wearing camel hair for clothes.
He was probably a bit gaunt.
I can’t imagine locusts being very filling.
(I should probably try the John the Baptist diet; might be good for me.)
The man in the image above is wearing today’s equivalent of camel hair.
When’s the last time you slept using a cardboard pillow?
How welcome would he be in your church?
Do you have anybody wearing “camel hair” in your church already?
Maybe instead of being all comfy and cozy at church on Sunday, we should go to the park. Or the mission.
Find someone wearing camel hair.
Discover who they are by talking to them.
Learn what they love.
Learn what they need.
Love on ‘em.
Pray for ‘em.
See past the camel hair right through to the person.
‘Cause they’re just like you and me.
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