The told me it would be hard to say goodbye to the people I would meet on the Race. The told me some months would be harder than the others. And they said it would be hard to keep loving new people while your heart missed the people you loved the month before.
Well it was hard sometimes. But this month loving was never easier, that’s why its the hardest to say goodbye. I know picking favourites is considered a sin but I believe God saved the best for last, in fact He told me that the month before.
Because who would have guessed that loving a bunch of old broken men would be such an incredible blessing. Men who by our definition have done some pretty terrible things in life. Men that most people would have given up on, men that people would call drunks or druggies and no good.
But that’s not what our God would say, and that’s not what He sees, and that’s not what I believe. Because i believe our Father in Heaven loves these men so absolutely and so uncondinitionally. I felt it. The first moment I walked into the room of over a dozen men to teach that week for seven hours a day about God, I felt it. I felt God’s unbreakable love and grace for them. Each one of them have opened doors in their hearts and started to let Abba in, and I’ve never seen something so beautiful.
I’ve spent three weeks with these men, preaching the Word of God, sharing our testimonies and watching The Lord go to work. And I will miss them, they are my favourites, and they are God’s favourites. The are redeemed, precious, chosen, forgiven, righteous, forgiven. They are worth loving, and they are worth it.
I’ll miss you my friends.
“Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor Angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height nor deapth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to seperate us from the love our God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:37-39
