So the day has finnaly arrived! I am officially fully funded! I want to thank all of you for all your prayers and support this has been a journey that I will never forget. G-d has taught me soo much and I still have 5 more months! I trully cannot express my thanks to all of you, so I thought it best to just share some more of what G-d is teaching me so here you go
When I signed up for World Race I imagined days of serving the poor, passing out tracts and doing about any sort of ministry imaginable, and there has been so much of that. When I go to these ministries my mindset is often set on going out to reach out to others and serve. In those moments G-d works, He speaks through my team and I to show His love to the people we interact with. I love seeing how G-d works in those moments but G-d has really convicted me lately that there is something supremely wrong with this situation.
The problem is this: when the ministry is over I change my mindset. I for some reason think in my head that I have done my share of ministry for the day and so now it’s my time. It’s almost as if I’ve imagined there is this quota of ministry hours that I am supposed to perform each month and that when I’ve reached that time or have done the ministry set for that day I can check out.
Ministry doesn’t end simply because I’ve left church or because I’ve given a sermon earlier that morning. Work still has yet to be done.
Back home I think of excuses that run through my head when I see homeless on the streets “I’ll reach out to them when I am not late for a meeting”, “I’ll tell them about the Lord and give them money when I am at a more financially secure point in my life”, “I’ll tell them Jesus loves them when my friends aren’t here to be weirded out by what I am saying”. The excuses keep coming. In fact if I sat down and thought about it they probably would never end.
But here is the truth: Doing our Christian duty can’t wait till it fits in our schedual or lifestyle. People need to hear about Christ now! People need food now! People need our love now! It can’t wait. It shouldn’t wait. It shouldn’t come as second priority. It should take precedence. We should drop our schedule when ministry presents itself.
I was listening to Screwtape letters by C.S. Lewis earlier today and he made the great point that teven the idea that our time is our own is a lie from the devil. If Christ were to come down now and demand anything of our time we would do it without quibble why is it we think it is different just because we can’t see Him?
