Two weeks ago I arrived in Murrieta for my third semester of Bible College and it has been a huge blessing, the people I've met, the classes and the work the Lord is doing in my life. God has given me a heart to proclaim Christ to the lost and I've been going out witnessing Friday, Saturday and Monday nights. It's been absolutely amazing but also hard but I rest in the fact that I know Christ is being proclaimed and that he saves. It's not up to me to convert people and I am so thankful for that. If it was up to me I'd be beating myself up.
The things I've seen and experienced in the times I've gone out already have been hard but also a blessing. I've been sworn at, told that Jesus doesn't matter, and I've been called Satan. Every person I talk to seems to have a hard heart towards Christ and they only seem to harden it more. But praise God that he is glorified in both the softening and hardening of hearts. Praise God that he is the one who saves. It's only by Christ that people come into saving faith by the drawing of the Holy Spirit. I'm just the means that God uses to bring about salvation. I thank him that he would find me worthy enough to use me in that. It's a blessing.
I can't help but think that the things God is taking me through in these times are to prepare me for the upcoming 11 months in January. Many of these things are new to me but I believe I'll be experiencing all of these things plus many more things, both good and bad on my mission. I'm excited to see the work God is going to do in the people I'll be ministering to as well as in me and my team, Lord willing I go.
