I loved working with the Mayan people in the jungle. It’s been so good to be back living with chickens and pigs and no cars. It’s just makes me feel more like I’m at home. But even though I might feel a little closer to home, and I’ve traveled the world, I still have a lot of fear left. Fear of giant spiders, diseases that the mosquitos carry, and sticking my hand in dark holes trying to catch giant crabs. In the times that I’m trying to think through how I’m going to catch a creature and not get bitten, I have started to realize it’s really not the spiders, or mosquitos, or really immediate pain of being bitten or pinched that I fear. It’s really the dark, the unknown, because if you’re in the dark, you just don’t know how you’re going to defend yourself. What are you going to tell Satan when he feeds you lies? You have no way of defending yourself. These last few weeks working with Carlos and his family, we worked with some short term teams, who after talking to I realized that some of them, and many of you reading these blogs, really feel the same way. Scared of the unknown, scared of what might happen, sacred of what’s really under that rock. So I want to remind all of you that Satan only has lies. Lies that tell you you’re alone, lies of not having a steady income or enough, but really those are just lies. You may be thinking, “That’s good, that makes sense to you in Central America, but you don’t know how it is in America.” I say, “Stop making excuses.” If you God is the same as my God, you would know the Lord never changes and he is always good. He is a light. When you look into those dark places remember that the Lord is with you, and he is the light. You can’t bring darkness to the light. You can only bring light to darkness.
