“The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord thunders over the mighty waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful.”
Psalm 29:3-4
Coming into Cambodia, Team Zion (my new team, holla) knew that we were going to be working in orphanages for the month. As a team, we decided that this month was not going to be about us, we were not going to selfish with the ways we loved the children. It would be too easy to come in and tell these children that I loved them, too easy to ignore the real reason I am on this trip, expanding the Kingdom. There is a love out there that is capable of moving mountains and changing lives, and it doesn’t come from flesh. It cant be provided by me, or my team. The love of Jesus is powerful and mighty, its an unfathomable love, a love that our tiny little humans brains simply cant comprehend. He is gentle and kind and He has a light touch, His burden is light, and also He is mighty and powerful and just. A perfect balance.
Being aware of the challenges that doing ministry in orphanages brings, Zion has been aware and intentional with our actions. Our days start off with teaching English to six of the forty children who live in New Hope Orphanage, this consists of about an hour of teaching at a white board leading into an hour of playing games and drawing. As more children, ages 3-20 years old, begin to trickle in from school, we start to talk about our stories and the Bible, or play soccer, or hangout in enos. Its pretty much the perfect life, all I do is hang around a bunch of cool kids talking about Jesus and living life. The Lord has His hand on Cambodia, I’ve known that since we found out we were going to be living here.
God loves to talk to me through water analogies, and so the other day while I was swimming I realized that our lives are a lot like opening your eyes underwater, everything is blurry and you never really know what direction you are swimming in or what is coming up next. On this race and in our life I have been learning a lot about flexibility and trusting people (for example, I didn’t know what I was doing or where I was going in Cambodia until I got there) And I realized that even though God walks beside, before and behind me, He is also above me working and understanding my life, putting His hand over my life and actions. To me, my life is blurry and confusing, but to God, He looks down and sees my path crystal clear. I get to trust that, I get to trust that the Lord who created me, has His hand on my life, he sees crystal clear and He knows everything about me. I don’t have to understand why things are happening or when the next thing is going to happen, because I know that Jesus is up there and He already knows exactly what is going to happen so I don’t have to worry.
Faith, my friends is an amazing thing. He perfectly orchestrates every aspect of our lives, and its so beautiful. His love is so deep and so vast and I am so in love.
With love,
Katie Jane
