I’ve been trying to think of what to write in this blog for a few days now. I was supposed to have written one by yesterday, but honestly felt no motivation or inspiration in what to write. But last night we went to our first Chilean church service. We sang some recognizable song (albeit in Spanish) so it was pretty easy to follow along. But then their pastor got up to preach.
She took off like a freight train speaking about some verse in Matthew. Immediately I was lost. I could pick out some phrases here and there but for the most part I didn’t understand a word she was saying. But the way she spoke about our God and His word was completely enthralling. She spoke with such passion and gusto that it didn’t matter that I didn’t understand anything she was saying. I understood her love for people and Jesus. Then I remembered that this was the same lady I saw while we were singing. She was so filled with the Holy Spirit during worship that she just literally couldn’t stand still. From the time she walked in that church to the time she left she was all in.
And that got me thinking. If she can capture my attention and get me excited about what Jesus has done and is doing and God’s word and we don’t speak the same language, then how can I be nervous to talk to someone who understands me? If I can share the gospel and the love of Jesus’ with just an ounce of the passion this woman had and have someone actually understand what I am saying, then how can I not?
This also showed me that even if I can’t speak the same language as the Chileans we are ministering to, I can share the love of God with them by the way I love, serve, and treat them. They will see me and my team being Jesus, passionately in Calama, Chile this month and I pray that they don’t lose that image of Him through us.
Matthew 5:6 says “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” We need to have a burning passion for God and serving him through serving others. We need to seek to know Him more.
If we don’t then how to we show our hunger and thirst for righteousness?
