Abba,
I just want to take a moment to thank you for where you have placed me this month. I am sitting here in a church pew sweating. In a long skirt and a 3/4 length shirt, just sweating. This weather is what I used to call “sweaty hot.”
It’s so hot and humid, I can’t stop sweating, but you know what I want to thank you for where I am.
Through all the sweat, there have been no complaints. I love the sweaty hot-ness. I love the opportunity you have given me to truly serve your people.
Just yesterday we passed bricks up a mountain to build a church in the middle of the Indian Jungle. We were the first white people they had ever seen; it was an honor to be able to show them that skin color and nationality don’t matter. ONLY Christ matters.
Being able to show those people your love while covered in dirt and brick dust, and literally dripping in sweat (I really mean rivers of sweat) was just the biggest honor.
Seeing where your people live daily and having the opportunity to be a small part of their lives was an incredible experience. Words cannot aptly describe how honored I am that you allowed me that experience. You know exactly where each of us are and what we need.
That’s incredible to think about, to realize that what you said in Psalm 139 is true. It’s unfathomable that you, the God that created the universe, are with us in every moment and knew us before creation.
You ordained that experience for me before I was born. While I was still dust, you set that senario into motion.
I can’t say thank you enough for yesterday, for these people for this region, for this country, and for your sovereignty over all things.
So I sit here, dripping in sweat, but I couldn’t be happier about where you have placed me. Even though my hair likes to mat to my head and my legs often resemble waterfalls, I just want to glorify you in this “sweaty hot” moment.
I pray, Father, that I would never forget this or any other “sweaty hot” moments, and I pray Lord that you would be glorified in every one.
It’s in your holy and precious name that I pray, Amen.
