I am in such awe of how faithful the Lord is! This whole journey of raising support to go to Poland has been so amazing and encouraging to see how He is providing the funds for me to go. The way the body has surrounded around the 4.5 of us has shown Christ's love in a way that I have never seen before!
Please continue to pray for us as the Lord prepares our hearts to ministry to the polish people!
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
understanding to love
Someone once said that in order to love someone you must understand them. As I think about this statement I question how I can understand someone else if I don't even understand myself.
Is it even possible to fully understand another?
God calls us to love our neighbor, love the nations and to love Him. However God is so infinite that we can't even begin to understand His entire Being -- how are we to love Him then?
What is required of us is to expand our hearts to a selfless realm where we want so badly to understand the one beside us that our own understanding becomes minuscule, and through that we will better understand ourselves.
So now the hard part is to lay down our own struggles, pains, frustrations and even joys to see our neighbor's struggles, pains, frustrations and joys and walk with them in understanding loving them in Christ.
It amazes me sometimes as I drive on the freeway and notice the other drivers. I try to look at their faces and imagine just what kind of day they are having, who they are and what they have been through. It is so easy to see them as just an object that makes an appearance in your life for a moment as you pass. But they are real people who could be losing their mom to cancer, lost their job or committing their lives to the Lord. We have no idea but what if we all desired to know? and even if we never speak, at those moments we lift them up in prayer, in love?
Is it even possible to fully understand another?
God calls us to love our neighbor, love the nations and to love Him. However God is so infinite that we can't even begin to understand His entire Being -- how are we to love Him then?
What is required of us is to expand our hearts to a selfless realm where we want so badly to understand the one beside us that our own understanding becomes minuscule, and through that we will better understand ourselves.
So now the hard part is to lay down our own struggles, pains, frustrations and even joys to see our neighbor's struggles, pains, frustrations and joys and walk with them in understanding loving them in Christ.
It amazes me sometimes as I drive on the freeway and notice the other drivers. I try to look at their faces and imagine just what kind of day they are having, who they are and what they have been through. It is so easy to see them as just an object that makes an appearance in your life for a moment as you pass. But they are real people who could be losing their mom to cancer, lost their job or committing their lives to the Lord. We have no idea but what if we all desired to know? and even if we never speak, at those moments we lift them up in prayer, in love?
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