What do you do when a Boy Scout hall is now home for you and 19 others?
What do you do when you leave behind everything you’ve ever known about or cared about?
What do you do when your comfort zone has been shattered in 8 short days?
What do you do when you faced with decisions that affect 6 other people and you don’t know what to do?
What do you do when you meet a drunken 41 year old Irish man on the streets and God completely wrecks your heart. A man who has been convicted of murder, served 14 years in prison, lost his wife to early, and now finds his identity in the bottom of a bottle of whiskey. What do you do?
What do you do when God seems so near that all you want to do is sit and be still with Him yet the tasks for the day demand the exact opposite?
What do you do when despite what we’ve been told the Church over here is doing just fine with the Word of God by the Spirit of God with out all the “luxuries” we fill our churches with in the states?
What do you do when as a last resort you stand in church so a 7 and 8 Year old girl can come pray healing for you. And instead of God healing your throat, He heals your Pride?
What do you do when 6 “strangers” suddenly become the most important people in the world to you?
What do you do when you see others hurting and you want more than anything to make it better and you cant?
What do you do when you see 40 plus people coming every Sunday to receive a few pieces of food that will hopefully help them get through the week?
What do you do when the only question that you can think of is “what did I get myself into”
What do you do when alone time no longer exists?
What do you do when you ask God to break your heart for the things that break His heart and He says ok and does it?
What do you do when praying for strangers on the streets becomes the highlight of your week?
To be 100% honest, I don’t know what you do!
But I know what im trying to do!
You trust God
You trust God that living with 19 others in community is what you really need right now.
You trust God that the things ahead are BETTER than the things you are leaving behind.
You trust God that your comport zone was all that comfortable in the first place.
You trust God that people your decisions effect are people quick to show grace (and your more thankful for them than they will ever know)
You trust God that his plan for the drunken 41 year old murderer is unfolding and not yet complete. Praise God that he is a God of Redemption!!
You trust God that He is with you even when you seem to busy.
You trust God that maybe one day our Churches in the states could learn a thing or to from the Churches abroad.
You trust God in knowing what you really need, not what you think you need.
You trust God that the word “stranger” no longer exists to your family!
You trust God that the Holy Spirit is a far better counselor than I could ever be.
You trust God for a changing of the seasons.
You trust God for the greatest adventure of you life.
You trust God that you don’t really need alone time right now. Time with Him and His people is far more important.
You trust God that a broken heart for the poor, hurting, dirty, broken, drunk, people is exactly what Jesus had. So I will take mine with Joy.
You trust God that He has always been at work and He was just waiting for you to join Him
