Hi friends,
I’ve recently returned from a trip to Southeast Asia. If you have time, I’d like to share a summery with you. This summery is a report of spiritual change that took place in my life because of this trip.
Spiritual lessons from this trip started as soon as my sister called me at work and told me they had opened positions for nonmedical/logistic persons to join the medical missions group that was leaving in a month. My first thought was, “I am not medically trained yet. I will be useless.” I have an almost unhealthy need to be needed, and this trip would teach me to trust that there is something I am needed for even if I can’t discern what before the proper time. It’s a hard kind of surrender to rely on God to have some work for you to do instead of having it all sorted out yourself.
I’ve often wondered if I could be a missionary. I’ve known for some years that God is really asking me to devote my life and all of myself to His kingdom work (weather I live overseas or not) but I felt inadequate. I read missionary biographies and more missionary biographies for years and years and I came to the conclusion that each of them had something I did not. They all displayed relentless passion and persistent motivation. I am more of an escapist, always looking for the easy route, and, I hate to admit I’m often apathetic and self-centered. That is not a description of a missionary who can be used by God. So the feeling of inadequacy effortlessly manifested itself in a spirit of fear. Fear is often debilitating. Thank God that He does not rely of us by ourselves to do His work without His help. My fears were pointless because God’s work is not about me being strong enough and obeying well enough. We all fall so short of being adequate. Christ Jesus is the only reason people can effectively love, serve, and share the gospel about being with God which is everlasting love and life. 2nd Corinthians is all about God being strong in our weakness. In this trip I was filled with care for these people and happiness to be with them. By this God-given and sustained passion, my self-taught habits of acting out of my inadequacies were disintegrated and replaced with trusting and being convinced that God enables.
I’m praying you become more and more convinced that our trustworthy God is able.
There were many more experiences this trip provided that I have not written abut, this was just the most spiritually life changing for me.
Thank you for listening.
I’ve recently returned from a trip to Southeast Asia. If you have time, I’d like to share a summery with you. This summery is a report of spiritual change that took place in my life because of this trip.
Spiritual lessons from this trip started as soon as my sister called me at work and told me they had opened positions for nonmedical/logistic persons to join the medical missions group that was leaving in a month. My first thought was, “I am not medically trained yet. I will be useless.” I have an almost unhealthy need to be needed, and this trip would teach me to trust that there is something I am needed for even if I can’t discern what before the proper time. It’s a hard kind of surrender to rely on God to have some work for you to do instead of having it all sorted out yourself.
I’ve often wondered if I could be a missionary. I’ve known for some years that God is really asking me to devote my life and all of myself to His kingdom work (weather I live overseas or not) but I felt inadequate. I read missionary biographies and more missionary biographies for years and years and I came to the conclusion that each of them had something I did not. They all displayed relentless passion and persistent motivation. I am more of an escapist, always looking for the easy route, and, I hate to admit I’m often apathetic and self-centered. That is not a description of a missionary who can be used by God. So the feeling of inadequacy effortlessly manifested itself in a spirit of fear. Fear is often debilitating. Thank God that He does not rely of us by ourselves to do His work without His help. My fears were pointless because God’s work is not about me being strong enough and obeying well enough. We all fall so short of being adequate. Christ Jesus is the only reason people can effectively love, serve, and share the gospel about being with God which is everlasting love and life. 2nd Corinthians is all about God being strong in our weakness. In this trip I was filled with care for these people and happiness to be with them. By this God-given and sustained passion, my self-taught habits of acting out of my inadequacies were disintegrated and replaced with trusting and being convinced that God enables.
I’m praying you become more and more convinced that our trustworthy God is able.
There were many more experiences this trip provided that I have not written abut, this was just the most spiritually life changing for me.
Thank you for listening.
