This spring break I went with a team of student’s from Corban to Tecate, Mexico to build a house for a family in need. Here is something I learned from my trip:
Each night after our group worked on the house we would drive back to our camp sight. We’d drop our things in the dirt outside our tent, change into a swim suit and attempt to wash ourselves behind a piece of plywood up the hill that separates the boys from the girls. Not long after our “showers” it would get surprisingly cold. I quickly put on about every piece of clothing that I packed and huddled next to the fire.
During one of these nights talking next to the fire in Mexico, I learned a valuable message. I learned that going to a new place to spread God’s love is not about changing the world, it’s definitely not about changing the culture, the purpose is to be involved in the work that God is already doing in a new place.
God has already changed the world by sending us his son. There is so much out there that we might not ever see or know, but God is at work in much more than what we could even imagine.
If we attempt to be big enough to do anything truly productive within our own accord than our results will be “meaningless, meaningless, utterly meaningless. Without the love of Christ.”- Ecclesiastes 1
