At training camp we were asked the question,
“When was the last time you did something for the first time?”
When Andrew Shearman asked us this I didn’t really think about it until this week when it seems like every minute holds a first taste or a first touch or a first smell here in Thailand.
This week
we tasted a rumbitan for the first time!
we taught 200 kids in a village English camp for the first time!
we saw an elephant paint and play soccer!
we heard Buddhist monks seeking a god that isn’t there!
we prayed for Bangkok’s red light district and the sex traffic trade!
we touched silk made for kings!
All the “new” reminds me that our God is a great God, who is possible of anything! If I remember how big and great and awesome he is then I can realize there’s nothing he can’t do. I consider my faith small, but everyday I feel like God is stretching it into something big. I want to rely on him for everything, trust him to handle it all, and expect him to do great things everyday.
If we forget how great our God is we also forget that he has given us the ability to “do all things through Christ, who strengthens us” (Phil. 4:13).
So let the impossible become possible through Christ!
Have you left something undone because you doubted your own strength, doubted that it was possible? What has the impossible kept you from?
“It is the things I have left undone which haunt me far more than the things which I have done.” Madeleine L’engle – Walking on Water
