He is the same.

As I was lying in my tent last night unable to drift off to sleep because of the combination of Dan working on his lumberjack skills in his tent, and the half a cup of Coke that I drank at dinner (i swear i am a 90 year old man) i had plenty of time to think about whatever crossed my mind. one of the things i was thinking about was re-entry and what things i want to share about my trip, and what i have learned that i can explain to people in a short amount of time, because no matter how much people say they want to hear about the trip, the truth is i probably only have five minutes before i start losing most of them. so i was thinking about the crazy ways i have experienced the Lord this year, in ways i never have before, and realized the the change hasn’t come because God works any differently out here, but because i have changed. The God i thought i knew growing up until i was 13 when i would have told you i was a Christian because i went to church and knew all the bible verses my teachers asked me to remember is the same God as the one i fully accepted into my heart when i was 13, but didn’t know what to do with, is the same God who i started actually following and learning about when i turned 15 and cracked open my bible because i wanted to, is the same God who i served working at a church for the two and a half years in San Diego before i left for this race, is the same God who i experienced in even new and more radical ways the past 11 months. He doesn’t just heal the blind in a hospital in Uganda, or take cancer out of a 15 year old boys leg in Romania. He is the same. He wants to do those things for all His children, no matter where they are. there are people right in their comfortable homes in America who have demons in them that need to be cast out, and He is just as willing and able to do it there as He is in a church in India. don’t wait around for a third world country or a world wide missions trip to experience all the Lord has for you, because He is the same yesterday today and forever, in America or in Africa.