We just sent out our most recent e-newsletter, and I had a reply back from a very old friend who also serves the Lord in Alberta. He is on a worship team in Lethbridge, and similar to us, he has a houseful of children as well! He asked me what was new – I had to assume that he meant beyond what we wrote in the e-newsletter. My answer may have been for a completely different question, but I think it spoke in a real way where my heart is at today.
And as for us? Beyond what’s in the newsletter? Heh. It’s going to be a very busy fall, winter, spring, summer, … I was just mowing the front lawn and thinking to myself, “What an awesome privelege to be risking my entire family for God!” It is sickening, yet thrilling trusting him with my livelihood, my family, and moving away from all of the familiar, to bring him Glory and build a new church. One second I can’t believe what I have purposed to do, it is beyond insane, but it occurred to me that will be my testimony to my workmates, who I have prayed for … for years now. I will be able to say to a couple of good friends who are atheists, “Would you risk your entire family, your money, your home, your family for your belief that God isn’t real? Because I am staking everything on my faith that he is, and that he loves me and will keep us all in his hand. If you wouldn’t risk, you might want to consider Christ, seriously.”
It would be nice to just do my job, come home, coach my kids’ soccer team, play a game on my computer, and love my wife. It would be peaceful, and restful and safe. It would be a good life. But what is this short life here on earth anyway? A few moments in eternity? I’ll rest when I am with him in heaven.
Don’t ask me where that came from. Maybe it’s simply my rationale for putting way too much on my plate and then trying to cram it all in at once.
Or maybe God’s going to help me finish it off.
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