It’s official, I’m leaving in two days! The Lord is so good!! Even before I was a Christian the Lord has prompted my heart to become a missionary. When I was walking in the complete opposite direction of him, he put impoverished kids on my heart. Over the last six years as I have walked with the Lord, trips have come and gone as every time I’ve prayed about it I’ve heard a very clear, “No, not now.” The time has finally come as I’ve, prayed, and then prayed again, just in case I was hearing wrong to go to Africa! I’m off to Kenya on Sunday, to work with several different villages where some orphans that my church supports live. I’m ready to have God open my heart to new things, to see his heart beat for his people, and to fall in love with God all over again. He has spoken to my heart about this tip, I’m expectant of great things!!
1 Peter 1: 6-9 says, In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved for various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith - more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire - may be found in the result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ, Though you have not seem him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that in inexpressible and fill with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
I not only feel this for myself, but for the people in Kenya. Though they have not seen him they love him, they know he’s there, they know he loves him. I’ve often felt very strongly like that, though in this moment I do not know that he is right there, I know him and I love him. He is the world to me, he only brings good gifts, he loves me and wants the very best for me. He is for me and not against me. He LOVES me. That is the heart beat that I want to bring to Kenya, that is what I want my love to be displayed as. He loves us more than we could ever understand.
