May 25, 2007
In the last few days the Lord has been teaching me many things.
First off, He’s teaching me how to step into the giftings He’s given me. I remember taking a spiritual gifts inventory at church before we left for the Race and one of the highest giftings was pastor. Well, I’m not so inclined to get up in front of a crowd of people and talk, so I wasn’t sure if the quiz was right, or if I just needed to stick with adminisration since I already knew I could do that one.
But the other morning, after a lot of inner turmoil over the state of our team’s interpersonal relationships, Scott said to me, “you’ve been given a pastor’s heart, you care about the flock.” It would be much easier to not open my mouth, to live life as is, do ministry, and in 6 months, go home with Scott and continue living. But God has put a heart of peace-making in me. A heart that longs for unity, even if I’m a part of the problem.
I think our squad has been rocked in Mozambique. We’ve literally seen blind eyes opened and deaf ears unlocked, and hundreds of people coming to the Lord daily. But God’s done something pretty cool. He’s allowed us to see the physical eyes and ears healed, but just on our squad He’s opened eyes and unlocked ears toward each other.
Something our squad was lacking as we stepped into Africa was unity (still is a bit). And God has allowed the parallel of physical healing to coincide with the emotional and spiritual healing that’s taking place iin the members of our squad. We’re starting to communicate more, we’re beginning to humble ourselves more, we’re starting to embrace who God has made us to be and who He’s called us to be. It’s an exciting time for us.
(Side note: we’ve just made it to debrief in Swazi, and I’m sure a lot of this stuff will come up again, just more blog material, right?)
