The new Guatemala

This is a view from the rooftop of the house I am now staying at with the Cabezases. It is very nice.  I am here for another day before traveling to Xela on Saturday.  More on that later.   

I spent some time in Guatemala today taking in the sunshine and getting some work done, like buying a Guatemalan cell phone.  This is the second time I have been in Guatemala and the first time I was here I noticed everything that was so similar to the US.  This time is different I see all the things that are different from the way I am used to things.  The roads are different, the cars are different, the driving is different, the stores, the language, the buildings, the people, the grass is different, the air is different, there is a different smell wafting through the air, the food is different, sure there is Burger King and McDonalds and but even those are different, even time moves differently.  None of this is bad, just different.  

It is more interesting than strange.  However there is one thing that is not different, and that is the body of Christ.  Yeah, it's a different language, the buildings are different, the worship is different, the style is way different, the food is different, but somehow the message is the same, it completely transcends culture and all the differences.  The Bible says the same thing in every language, in every nation, in every culture.  That says something about God.  He is the same here as he is there, the same now as he was and will be, the same in one language as another.  That doesn't prove the Bible is true but it sure points in that direction.  It really is as if all Christians are one body as the Apostle Paul once said.