Sifting through other people's blogs and reading about their daily thought processes has left me feeling hungry. Why can't I be at that level? At the same time, I give myself grace, knowing my age and how much I can carry with my own two hands.
There are 2 more days until I go to South Korea for CM2007. I cannot contain my excitement! At work today, I pictured meeting someone from Algeria and them telling me about the difficulties in preaching the gospel on campus; then I imagined myself trying out "gahm-sah-ham-ni-da" (thank you in Korean) to a local... oh, I almost cried!
I want to grow and be amazing for God. Lately, He's been teaching me patience, and not even just in the wider scheme of things, but in general, everyday situations. While I wait for those senior to me to board the bus first, I am slightly rude to the Chinese woman who assumes I can speak her language. While I stop by a Big Issue seller to purchase a copy, mainly to do him a favour, I am discreetly sour at the very rich customer who tries to intimidate me, and I fool myself into thinking he does not deserve the same amount of love.
"If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others?" - Matthew 5:46-47
We are all broken. And broken people need God's grace to glue themselves together. Just, some are better at concealing it than others. But you're a fool if you're convinced that their all-together face is the real them.
"Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect."
- Matthew 5:48
Yes God.
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Its a good thing Jesus gifted us his perfection... Korea should be mind-blowing, and you are amazing for God now Jess, I always think it would be easier to martyr life than lifestyle, cos we are better at making the big grand gestures that will be remembered than the everyday small sacrifices that will never be acknowledged. So it is in the small sacrifices that God challenges us, he knows where we need strengthening. Yet is is also in the small things that we bring God more glory than we could ever imagine.
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