Wow, mom kept on saying today that God has been asking a lot from His people lately. In a manner this is very true, at least for us. I wonder though if perhaps we shouldn't view it as out of the norm. I wonder if He is calling out on a regular basis for His sons and daughters to leave their worlds behind in order to follow Him, much like He asked the disciples to do. I wonder if God regularly feels neglected by His followers when we say, 'not now, Lord', or 'No'.
While it is true that obeying Him can be the most difficult decision to make of a lifetime, I firmly believe with everything in me that when we choose to follow Him through the valleys of darkness and discomfort that the end result will be a heightened glory of living. Victory and blessings come to those who truly follow their King!
So, on a practical note, we will either be walking from Georgia and into Azerbaijan tomorrow or the next day. We applied and received our visas to enter Azerbaijan today, and the entire process took only two hours! God is good. We have encountered some lovely YWAMers based over here that have been a tremendous blessing with taking care of a lot of the logistics in advance. It really proves to show that when God calls us on a seemingly impossible task that He will sufficiently provide for victory. Again, God is good!
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Hey there Dave, Hang in there. It's totally OK to be missing her and I understand the feeling. I have had to deal with lonliness for a number of years now since the divorce and pressing into my relationship with God by worshiping has been a great comfort to me. I know these are concepts you already know but having to put them into practice from necessity is something else again. Your lonliness is the same kind of lonliness the Father must feel when one of His beloved strays from relationship with Him. (We could never fathom the depth of His love for us.) That is why you walk, carring the Glory of God with you and establishing His presence wherever you go. That as you bring His presence to everyone you meet in a dry and thirsty land, men and women are being drawn to the Father. His lonliness is being replaced with unspeakable joys in heaven as the lost are being restoring to relationship to Him. May God give you vision and understanding and sight into the heavenly realms to see and experience some of this joy. You are but seperated from Trish for such a short season, let your longing for her become your resolve to push forward as His presence and Glory precedes you.
ReplyDeleteI have subscribed to your blog and will continue to pray for all of you.
Please let me know how I can be of practical help to those who are back home right now. I am willing to help them with anything I can do. Mow the lawn, plumbing, carpentry, painting. Just let me know. I just need to know how I can serve them while you are over there. Dave in Duluth