After a month and a half, I am finally back in Florida. I had some family members that were having surgery, and I was there to help out in any way I could. I didn’t realize how hard it was going to be, especially being fresh off of the mission field and going through re-entry.
Re-entry is the really, really hard process one goes through, when entering back into the United States, after spending quite a bit of time in third-world countries. It’s super hard to explain what that process looks like, and all I can tell you is at least for me, it’s not a pretty process by any means.
However, God’s grace gets me through every time. Thank you God…I really would not make it without Him. Sometimes I get so low in the process, life seems hopeless (even though it shouldn’t, because we have a promise…the HOPE of glory in Christ Jesus). Amen!
I think what makes these times so difficult, is going straight from being on mountain tops, to falling deep into the valley (from one day to the next). But both places are the will of God, both places are important, and His plan for my life is STILL good! Although the valley is hard…He helps me to get over myself and my flesh melts right off. It hurts, but thank you Jesus for loving me enough not to let me sit in my filth, but to make me worthy of the calling you have placed on my life. The calling to be yours and tell others of your love, redemption, and salvation.
The next 6 months are completely up in the air. I literally don’t know what one day looks like to the next. I don’t even know what city or state I will be in, or where I will be sleeping. Although this season can seem scary, it’s also very exciting because I know He’s got me. God is my refuge…He is my security… He Will Not Let Me Fall.
The following is today’s passage from the devotional God Calling by Two Listeners:
January 24 Your Great Reward
“I am your God. Your Great Reward. Yours to look up and say, ‘All is Well.'”
You pray for Faith, and you are told to do so. But I make provision in the House of My Abiding for those who turn towards Me and yet have weak knees and hearts that faint. Be not afraid. I am your God. Your Great Reward. Yours to look up and say, “All is well.”
I am your Guide. Do not want to see the road ahead. Go just one step at a time. I rarely grant the long vista to My disciples, especially in personal affairs, for one step at a time is the best way to cultivate Faith.
You are in uncharted waters. But the Lord of all Seas is with you, the Controller of all Storms is with you. Sing with Joy. You follow the Lord of Limitations, as well as the God in whose service is perfect freedom.
He, the God of the Universe, confined Himself within the narrow limits of a Baby-form and, in growing Boyhood, and young Manhood, submitted to your human limitations, and you have to learn that your vision and power, boundless as far as spiritual things are concerned, must in temporal affairs submit to limitations, too.
But I am with you. It was when the disciples gave up effort after a night of fruitless fishing, that I came, and the nets broke with the overabundance of supply.
“He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth
much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.” – John 15:5
