CAMBODIA | Siem Reap
On Sunday after church, we had another opportunity to hang out with the students that went to church. We had lunch with them at the Pizza Company (which in my book was right up there with Pizza Hut) and then we went to the park to hang out.
At the park was a Buddhist temple where people were playing music. Les, Tara, Tim, and I decided to check it out. The girls went inside and Tim and I observed from the outskirts. Tim and I began to discuss our students and how what we were doing here – teaching, hanging out, making friends – was great but meant nothing if Jesus wasn’t apart of it. We needed to get deeper with our students to at least know where they stood.
At that exact time, one of our students Sienna came up and began asking me how I felt about the Temple. I told her that it was beautiful but that it was different… I didn’t at this point know her religion and didn’t want to offend. But, she stated in return that she agreed and that after she became a Christian that temples made her very sad.
I began to ask her about her story and when she made the decision to believe. At this point she said something that is very important. She said that she believed many, many years ago, but she did not start to trust in Jesus until about 3 months ago. How mature, for a 16 year old girl in Cambodia to know the difference between believing and trusting. How many people live their lives saying they are a Christian but never trusting God? James 2:19 says that “even the demons believe”.
People…we need to stop merely believing and start trusting God with our lives. Revelation 3:16 states “because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth”. God calls us to a radical belief and abandonment, to live a life that is apart from this world and committed to the plans God has.
Before the race started I struggled a lot with basing my decisions on logic or trusting God through faith. It was hard for me to logically think the money would come in but faith said it would. But the other day I was reading with my team in Ephesians 1. In verse 8 it says that God has ALL wisdom and insight. He has wisdom of the past, present and future. He has it ALL. How could we possibly even think our logic compares to the logic that God has. I have found that no longer is it a choice between logic or faith. I know that my faith is logical because I trust that God has all wisdom so how could it not be!
