Examples from Daily Life

Daily life in some (or most) places in Mozambique is not ‘’modern’’ Limited access to electricity and running water, the things considered ‘’essential’’ to life by many in the western world.

In many ways, life in Mozambique can be far more similar to life 2000 years ago, during the time of Jesus. Scenes from the Bible seem to come to life and it is easy when doing every day work, to be reminded of these stories.

For instance, one day several boys arrived at our house, and saw these markings on the door and asked what they were.

These are notations that the census takers in use to mark their work. The boys still weren’t quite sure, so I reminded them of the account in the bible, when Joseph and Mary traveled to Bethlehem, after Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.

Some of those same boys helped with some trees that were badly in need of trimming. We talked about John chapter 15, where Jesus says ‘’I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.’

We even had scapegoats, similar in concept to the scapegoats in Leviticus 16.

Whether it is weeds (Matthew 13:24-30) or wells, or seeds (John 12:24) or snakes, there is something every day that can be used as a lesson to remind us of what the Bible says about life.