For some reason I love random blogs, I don’t know what’s been goin but that’s been my life lately.
I want to attempt to bring all this into focus and tie it into my time here in Targu Mures, Romania.
We are here spending time with college students at Sapienta and University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Targu Mures.
The time that Will, Blake, Julian, and I spent at the Jazz and Blues Club was more than we could ask for. We thought, yeah spend some time with people, maybe have a conversation or two but mainly just have a good time with the guys.
With our focus of this month’s ministry being college age adults: it has put a completely different spin on what we think of ministry. It basically takes me straight back to living life my last few semesters of college.
I see a group of young adults who have the world at their fingertips. Like my college years, I was never hurting for anything when it came to nutrition, shelter, and clothing.
What do you tell someone who isn’t hurting for the necessities of life? An easy answer would be what brought me to where I am right now.
Phillip, why are you here? What do you have to offer that is more important than yourself, than your necessities and the excess of material things you have?
I’m here in Targu Mures, Romania because i’ve tasted and seen that “everything that shines ain’t always gonna be gold.” I’ve tasted and seen that simply surviving(food, house, clothes) isn’t enough. There’s more. All those things are focused towards ME! If this world is about me then it ends when I die…. i’m pretty sure when I die this world keeps spinning. There’s something more other than the world
Maybe, if there was no way to defeat sin… that would be it, trust in myself, trust in my knowledge, my strength, my wisdom, my words, my thoughts
that’s not true though, sin has been defeated. the job is done, the next part is easy. no striving. no talking. no thinking. no planning. no work. nothing but belief, faith that He is and He did. Jesus Christ took sin, the Father took His wrath out on sin, His son, for you!
It’s sounds pretty simple but that’s because He’s made it more real in my heart. Truth is we will never understand the depth of what happened on that cross. We can’t comprehend a love that deep, that wide, that true, that perfect, that sincere, that real. All done for you! For a reconciled relationship with you! His masterpiece!
The people that we’ve met are amazing people with beautiful hearts. They make it easy to realize we were made in his image, that we do certain things and act certain ways because Someone has done them before us. Seriously, after 3 days of meeting with some students we were invited to their home to have a traditional drink, Palinka, which was made by one of the student’s father, grandfather, and grandmother. Most parents would look at their child like he or she is insane! I can hear it now, “Who in the world, literally, are these random internationals you’re bringing in my house to drink my traditional celebratory drink.”
The students we have met will always be on our hearts, and there is an open invitation to each one of them to come to my house… where ever that may be!
Dani, Helga, Laszlo, Levi, Reni, Zsuzsi, Zoli, Zozo, Panni, Tomi, Christian, Will, Sheiban, Arnold, Bea, and all the others that we’ve met in our time here, you are invited to my house, spend time with my Father,
