[Malachi 3:6]
“For I the LORD do not change”
My God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is the same in Kenya, in England, in Oklahoma, and to the ends of the earth. He is the same in my joy, in my struggle, in my doubt, and in my questioning. This summer I got to experience that unchanging, unfailing, and undeniable love and this video is just a small representation of the beauty that God displays around the world through His creation and His people.
Sometimes it’s easier to acknowledge the presence of God in a foreign surrounding. But when you come back to your “comfort” you fall into a rest that isn’t Jesus Christ. Maybe it’s a roof over our head, it’s 3+ meals a day, it’s a job that promises to provide, it’s a car that takes us to and from. But what if rest isn’t any of that. What if rest doesn’t have anything to do with comfort but a constant adventure of seeking, knowing, growing, sharing, and proclaiming? What if rest is this…
[Matthew 11:29-30]
“Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
I want this kind of rest.
A rest that is running with endurance this race that is set before me – looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of my faith – that I will not grow weary. I will find rest.
My God is the same God that revealed pure joy in Kenya, showed me the beauty of His creation in Europe, and gives me community in Oklahoma to invest in and live life with.
The Lord tells us to “stand by the roads and look. Ask for the ancient paths where the good way is, and walk in it. There you will find rest for your souls.”
[1 Corinthians 15:51-58]
“Behold I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the works of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.”
Therefore, on the day I’m changed by an unchanging God, I want to say that I conquered the world by being steadfast, immovable, having always abounded in the work of the Lord, finding His rest, so that my labor was not in vain.
