(Sorry been so long since I posted on here. Had my gallbladder taken out on this past Thursday, that has kind of put me out of the loop)
From my reading of Radical:
Will we refuse to sit back and wait for some tingly feeling to go down or spines before we rise up and do what we have already been
commanded to do? Will we risk everything - our
comfort, our possessions, our safety, our very lives - to make the gospel known among unreached peoples?
Such rising up and such risk taking are the unavoidable, urgent results of a life that is radically abandoned to Jesus.
(Lord, I pray that you will take me out of my comfort zone. That in doing so I grow more in you. I want to want you more God. I want to desire you in such a way that giving you everything I have for you is not a second thought. I want more of you Lord.)
After I prayed this prayer, I read Philipians, and God reaffirmed my prayer by these verses.
Philipians 3:7-11
But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which
is through in Christ-the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. I want to know Christ-yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in this sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.
(God is Good)
It is hard to believe that tomorrow will be our last full day in Haiti. We have accomplished so much in this past week, but it feels like we haven't done enough. God has allowed us to touch so many lives this week, and yet I feel like the one who is blessed. We went up on the mountain today to a church Rock Bridge has fully funded to rebuild. The church is so far up in the mountains that the temp dropped atleast 15-20 degrees. People who live in the mountains don't live together like in a town, they are spread out for miles across the area. We saw people who walk for miles just to come to church. And not just any walk. This is intense mountain walking.
People will carry stuff for miles down to Petit Goave to the market, and when they leave at the end of the day, they will head back up the mountain with what they did not sell.
In america we complain about going to church even if it is just raining, then people will walk in the rain, across miles of mountain roads just to worship God. Again, I pray that I want God like these people want God!
I have learned so much from these people. I pray to God that I don't forget what he has shown me in my time here. And I pray that I take what he has shown me and use it in my daily life, and use it to ultimately glorify Him! God is Good!!
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