As I was hiking up in the mountain this morning, I was thinking how hard things are in the world (obviously life is hard) and I thought about a period of time that I went through where I just wanted to give up and cry..A series of posts on Facebook went on for months of how I suffered I just couldn't get up, but God worked that completely out of my life, and I am incredibly thankful that I am strong, capable, and now ready to move forward into ministry....One day when I posted about something that we went through, a facebook friend privately wrote me a message about basically shutting up and moving on (that was love for another Christian on his part) I listened and I prayed and repented, and then I basically asked God to continue refining me and making me strong. I see FAR too many Christians walking around with a burden of self on their shoulders that they carry around that is holding them back from God's will, these are people easily offended and unable to take sound instruction from their leaders, they focus on small things unimportant how people dress,what food we eat, other peoples sin... they want to be renegades and do ministry on their own they have been to many churches and none of them suit their "prerequisites" they focus on small things such as food or outward appearance, If they cannot grow, thrive, and, move on because of offenses they have suffered I believe they are NOT ready to be in ministry....This is a despicable disease in many first world countries, lately I have seen so many attitudes about America going down the drain so people talk about it's time to leave...Listen If you can't handle it in the states then what the hell (scuse' the french) makes you think that you can handle life somewhere else!!?? The struggle that I had with my children when we first came to Chile was amazing, we saw the fruit of trying to shelter them from life while homeschooling, we saw the fruit of them having access to comfort at all times..Honestly the first few months were disastrous but all of our issues came to the surface and our very westernized way of thinking came out and we repented and dealt with it and have been working in love and honesty on these issues.Am I against homeschooling ...no way! I think that it is a great way to establish your children, but make sure that you instill in them a strength, a strength to live in society amongst everything because everywhere else in the world is harder than the U.S. but honestly you can never, ever grow as a human being if you cannot plant your feet firmly while pressing on towards our great goal, If you can only find fault with everything around you, If you shrivel at every criticism, at every difficult event then you should just give up because that is basically what you are already doing, If you ran away from your problems then go and face them and it will make you grow and flourish :) We have a GREAT BIG GOD backing us up!.We are not called to be easily offended or back away when confronted..(Thank you so much to my friends who loved me enough to speak the truth!!! and thank you God for preparing my heart to receive it) I really appreciate my pastors at Our greatly missed church The Adventure because since leaving, God has showed me a different view of things and I want to thank them for being an example of not giving up amidst so much crap...seriously that is strength. We are but dust in the wind, so in this world it is time to be a light to everyone around us. We are called to bring the gospel to people, to be all things to all men....to go out in Love and in Peace and in boldness and tell the people the good news of the gospel....We are not to focus on the illuminati or gun control, emergency preparedness or other political issues....... those things change when people come to Jesus Christ. Jesus will come back one day and there is no sense in worrying and giving up he will FIX things, so for me it's a time to REJOICE and be happy because my savior has already redeemed me and he is on his way... Until then Our family will firmly establish ourselves here in Chile and in the faith not moving to the right or the left, not being easily swayed or shaken we are in this world and this is where God has placed us...
Isaiah 40:28-31 Have
you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting
God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow
weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the
faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths
shall faint and be weary,and young men shall fall exhausted; but they
who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up
with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall
walk and not faint
John 16:33 I have
said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world
you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 So
we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner
self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is
preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as
we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are
unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that
are unseen are eternal.
2 Timothy 1:7 for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
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