Here for Him!

One thing I have become completely certain of is that we are here for Him alone! I think when we left to come onto the mission field, we came as world changers. There is nothing wrong with wanting to serve the Lord, but we had ideas. We had plans. We were in the way!

Looking back over this year (which has been the hardest year of my life) I realize that it has to be ALL for HIM. People's lives go on back home. The people you are serving never say "thank you". You serve day in and day out & it is never enough. The food is just horrible. The smell of our village is repulsive. We are in a nice sweat all day. We are persecuted behind our backs. The people even just finished a festival in which the people paraded down our very street daily for 10 days boasting of their devils. We can pour out our hearts and love the people with brotherly/sisterly love, but only God can change a person! We have shared the Gospel so many times and as a whole the people's hearts are so hard. They want something. They want money. They want food. They want the shirt off your back if you will give it. Only a few have truly pressed into wanting Jesus.

But we have to stand in His love, so that we can share His love. The Lord is teaching us to love the unlovable. We were the unlovable when our lives were apart from Christ! We are tired, but He gives us rest. We do all of this for His Name to be known, Him to be praised & to be challenged into deeper communion with our Lord!

Pray for our renewed strength & for the people's hearts to want HIM!