Tonight we embark on our new journey. Yana, our Great Dane, is settled in with her new temporary family during our abscence. All her labwork came back good so we are at peace.
My emotions are still a bit mixed as far as wanting to stay and wanting to go but I know with each day His peace will come as I seek Him more and more.
We stayed at a really nice mission house in Lima. It's too bad the missionary who has known about this for years has never shared the information. We still don't understand why missionaries are like this. Mistrusting other missionaries, unwilling to share information, unwilling to work together. This is a great area in need of prayer.
We have been truly blessed to stay here and have met some really nice brothers and sisters in Christ.
We arrive in Orlando tomorrow morning some time...they keep changing the arrival times so right now it looks like 8:30am.
Today as I read the word of God, I meditated on this Scripture...."We know that we are of God and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understandingso that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true,in His Son Jesus Christ. Little children guard yourselves from idols." (1John 5;19-21)
We are only of God when we have come to the Cross in repentance having received forgiveness by the shed blood of Jesus Christ. Once having done that we now are of God and in Him and He in us. We are not only to read and study and memorize His word but more importantly than all this we are to Do His Word. How many people sitting in the church today, hear, read, memorize and brag on all this yet take little to no time to obey and Do His Word. We are like ones with dirty faces who look in the mirror and see all the dirt but then once having walked away from the mirror we forget what we have seen. We choose to wallow in it just as we choose to wallow in our sins never taking on the miracle of washing in the cleansing of His Most glorious Word allowing it to change us from glory to glory.
In Christ, who is Truth, we come to full understanding. I greive for those such as Oprah Winfrey who having heard the word never came to the full understanding...having had it fall on the shallowness of her heart and so many others follow her.
His word says to "guard your heart from idols".
As we travel, my prayer is that many will come to see the beauty of Christ in us and receive the knowledge of Truth. His Truth.
Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." John 14:6
Well I am off to pack and get ready for our night's journey.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
On our way to the states
It is Wednesday evening and neither Angel nor I can sleep. Tomorrow we leave for Lima with our Great Dane, Yana, to board her for 6 months with a veternarian. We will be in Lima for 5 days and then head out to St. Petersburg, Florida where we will be on furlough for those 6 months, April through October.
I must say my emotions are like a roller coaster and the only way I can keep them in check is to keep my eyes on the Cross. When I focus on the Cross, nothing I seem to be going through pales close to what my Savior did for me. For the love He has for us, He endured the pain, shame, rejection, abandonment, and all the horrors of mankind so that I might look to Him for His strength during my days of trial and testing. Jesus never lost sight of His purpose here on earth. He never allowed distractions, friendships, or storms to keep Him from walking that long dark road of Calvary. He was focused. His eyes were on the Cross. He knew it was at the Cross where He would be victorious over sin and death and it would be at the Cross where all men would be set free. I hunger for this level of focus. Yet I come short so many times.
With this new journey, it is the first time Angel and I have no clear vision, no real direction except that we are going to Florida and not much more at this point. It is a strange and unusual place to be and yet an exhilerating place. Strange and unusual because we have always had a plan, a goal, a direction and now we are just hanging out there on a limb. Exhilerating because we know without a shadow of a doubt our times are in the hands of the Master and whenever your life is totally surrendered to His Will your life will never be the same.
2008 - The year of New Beginnings.
"Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." Hebrews 12:1-2
I must say my emotions are like a roller coaster and the only way I can keep them in check is to keep my eyes on the Cross. When I focus on the Cross, nothing I seem to be going through pales close to what my Savior did for me. For the love He has for us, He endured the pain, shame, rejection, abandonment, and all the horrors of mankind so that I might look to Him for His strength during my days of trial and testing. Jesus never lost sight of His purpose here on earth. He never allowed distractions, friendships, or storms to keep Him from walking that long dark road of Calvary. He was focused. His eyes were on the Cross. He knew it was at the Cross where He would be victorious over sin and death and it would be at the Cross where all men would be set free. I hunger for this level of focus. Yet I come short so many times.
With this new journey, it is the first time Angel and I have no clear vision, no real direction except that we are going to Florida and not much more at this point. It is a strange and unusual place to be and yet an exhilerating place. Strange and unusual because we have always had a plan, a goal, a direction and now we are just hanging out there on a limb. Exhilerating because we know without a shadow of a doubt our times are in the hands of the Master and whenever your life is totally surrendered to His Will your life will never be the same.
2008 - The year of New Beginnings.
"Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." Hebrews 12:1-2
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