As I reflect now on the month, I realize that the Lord is
teaching me a very very important lesson. Being in love with him is enough and
everything I DO is simply because he allows for it and is glorified through it…
but the THINGS I DO…are only given to me as opportunities from him and they are
HIS plan for me…
Many of you read about Petro. A little boy I met in Moldvoa
and believed that the Lord had plans for. I sat in Romania and began to share
with Christi (a friend from my squad) about what God did last month. the only
story I could think of was Petro. But something happened as I was telling the
story… I began talking about what the Lord did to my heart.
I met this
little boy… I knew the Lord had something for him… but I knew that I was only
supposed to be still. I can not even think of all the random things that my
hands and feet did… busy here, go there, walk, talk, pray, church, project, go,
do… but I feel like I just focused on being still. My spirit was steadfast and
I just was still. I didn’t do anything. I showed up… that is all I had to do…
show up and the Spirit moved. I showed up and Petro came, one day he held my
hand, progress… the next day he smiled… progress… I just showed up and I
prayed. I greeted him with a hello… but I really didn’t do anything. I didn’t
say the right things, I didn’t spend all of my time with him, I didn’t play
soccer with him or bring him his favorite candy, I just showed up… and by the
end of the month the Lord had done a radical transformation in that little boys
life. What!?
I realized in that moment that the story that was happening
to me in Moldova, an amazing beautiful story of transformation … was really a
story I watched happen. I showed up and I let the Spirit of God show up and
move. Yes maybe my hands and feet were there… important and why I have been
sent… my hands were there to stroke his hair, to hold his hand as we walked, to
protect him from the gang boys who wanted to hit him, my feet were there to
carry him on my back, to walk with him to kids program, to walk by every
morning and say hello…. but the thing that transformed his life… was not any of
my DOING… it was me BEING… being in love with my PAPA, being in tune and open
to the SPIRIT of God working in me and through me, me ABIDING in the goodness
and hope that I have the privilege to wake up to every morning, to my daddy, to
my Lord, to my Savior.
I am sure that people could look and say that I did may
things last month… but I honestly cant fill a blog with them, they hardly stick
in my mind. All I know is abiding and being in love with my Lord is what my
agenda was and that God moved and worked and changed lives!!!! Praise Him for
that!!!
