It is about time to transition again and I think I am overdue in writing about my time in Rwanda. I entered Rwanda on the high of a wonderful month in Uganda. I knew immediately that I had to seek God about this next month because I didn’t want to carry over expectations based on my previous month. As I sought God about Rwanda there were two verses that struck me in a new way.
“You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the season that their grain and wine increased. I will both lie down in peace, and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.”
Psalm 4:7-8
I discovered a beautiful promise from God here, that it is possible to have MORE gladness in my heart that in a season where the harvest was plentiful (or a time in my life where everything was great). I didn’t know what Rwanda had in store when I read this verse but I knew that God was promising to give me gladness even more abundantly than my time in Uganda. The other verse I read was,
“Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; though the labor of the olive may fail, and the fields yield no food; though the flock may be cut off from the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls — Yet I will rejoice in the Lord. I will joy in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength; he will make my feet like deer’s feet, and he will make me walk on my high hills.”
Habakkuk 3:17-19
Sometimes I get caught up in my “sorrows” and I may not even be miserable but I just lack having joy when everything isn’t what I want it to be. However this month I was challenged to have joy simply in my salvation. We had many hours of door to door evangelism and during that time I was confronted with the JOY OF SALVATION (See my blog titled Innocent). I don’t want to take that joy for granted for one more day. I was grateful for the Lord revealing these verses to me in a new way and I realized his timing was in this because as we began ministry we were asked to speak at church almost every day, sometimes twice a day. With a team of only five the rotation came quickly back around and we always had to be ready with a word to share with the church. I will not complain about that because it was a beautiful thing to see the church hungry to learn and continue to grow in the Lord. I personally took on the Wednesday morning women’s fellowships and I saw God answer my prayer every single week as I sought a word to share especially with that group of ladies.
All in all it was a good month but not because I had a lot of feel good days. We all know life isn’t always about feeling good, and faithfulness is about remaining steady no matter how you feel. God has been faithful to me this month the same as every other, and I believe he is teaching me to have a greater faithfulness to him as well.
