TANZANIA
| Morogoro
Last
month I finished up my last bits of the Old Testament. Throughout
many of those books, the word “remnant” seems to come up
alot. In the OT it is mainly speaking of the remnant of Israel that
continued to follow God instead of the ways of the world, but then
when starting to read Acts this month, the word came up again. It
seemed that God was trying to teach me something about this word, but
I unfortunately was not getting the practical application, until last
night.
Our
team, with the suggestion from Leslie, decided to hook up an ipod to
the sound system at the church. It was a brilliant idea to finally be
able to worship to songs that were in a language we could understand,
and be able to scream the songs at the top of our lungs and be
drowned out by the music. But during this time, the word “remnant”
hit me again, maybe it was in something I read, heard in a song, or
it could have just been God, I am not really sure, but it hit me
hard. I continued theme throughout these many months on the World
Race has been giving up myself for God. And along that train of
thought, God was telling me that I need to desire to be a remnant.
That I need to long to be something as miniscule as a crumb. That I
need to make myself nothing. This message I seem to preach everytime
I give my testimony, but being put into the light of being a
“remnant,” almost gave me a visual.
Say
I was a pie (sorry on the World Race we think alot about food, so
there ya go), a beautiful and delicious raspberry pie. I think that I
have alot to offer if I continue to look at myself as this. That I am
something that satisfies that brings happiness and fulfillment. But
God asks me to become simply a crumb, something that people would
have never known was a delicious and wonderful dessert. Something
that people would most likely dust onto the ground or into the trash.
So
often, I want to be something, to mean something, but God only asks
to be nothing for the sake of Him. He wants us to be a crumb, so that
we dont get noticed, and He gets all glory. I find that everyday I
find more joy in being less so that He can be more.
