You only get one chance. This thought runs through my mind
each time I leave one country and enter another. I pray that I took advantage
of every second God gave me. There is no going back. I pray that I loved each
of His children enough when it was needed. I hope that no time was wasted and I
was a good steward of everything given to me. There are no do-overs.
However, I am learning more and more that this trip is not
about doing amazing things overseas. It’s about learning to live life intentionally.
It’s about loving people wherever you are; immersing yourself in God’s grace
and love and then pouring that out onto the people around you, wherever God has
you. It’s all about Jesus. This month I was told, “Ministry comes in the wake of a life pursuing God.” Life is not about doing good
things, or trying to help people. It is about loving God and being a vessel,
and you only get one life.
will never get back. Every time I seek my own pleasure over God’s will, I have
wasted an opportunity that will never be there again. Luckily by the grace of
Christ, He can redeem each situation I screw up. He can love those I overlooked
because I was too busy. He can feed the hungry that I did not because I wanted
to feed myself. He can heal the broken hearted that I passed by in my race to accomplish my
own agenda.walk where Jesus did, and love the broken people of Israel. In order to fully
pursue the things God has for me, I am not going to use any technology that can
take away from my experience. I will be able to post a blog once a week, and
that is it. I will never be able to spend the month of December in Israel
again. I will never have Christmas in Jesus’ birthplace again; I must take full
advantage of the experience. I must be obedient to God’s call to love Him and love His people. I do not want to miss any opportunity. I do not want to have
any regrets.
