I’m on a new team of seven girls. We’re having to learn how to live together in the context of a ministry that’s demanding, challenging and confusing.
Easter Sunday we headed out to lead an Easter service in the jungle at 8:30pm
We’re surrounded by jungle men and it’s after 10pm; service hasn’t started yet.
We returned home around 12:30am.
We wake up at 7am for morning devotions and are out doing ministry past 11pm.
We go to bed past 12 or 1 on average.
It’s hot here. And humid.
We walk in our sweat.
We sit in our sweat.
We eat in our sweat.
We sleep in our sweat.
It’s rare to find AC – sweating has become just another way to live life, drenched from head to toe.
Life isn’t always ideal.
So we have to deal with what we’re given.
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
To the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ. Now if we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effective for enduring the same sufferings which we also suffer. Or if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. And our hope for you is steadfast, because we know that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also you will partake of the consolation. For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life. Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead, who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us, you also helping together in prayer for us, that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the gift granted to us through many. For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you. For we are not writing any other things to you than what you read or understand. Now I trust you will understand, even to the end (as also you have understood us in part), that we are your boast as you also are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.
