I happen to see that countdown on my blog and it made me feel a bit odd. Time had run out.
OK, so that's in reference to the travel date for our departure from Kernersville, NC via the Raleigh-Durham Airport, Miami and then arriving here last night in Santiago for a couple of days before we head over to Haiti. But the tim(er) had run out.
The days leading up to getting on that plane were remarkable. Family times, friends and our church family, neighbors stopping or calling. Wow--I just cannot help but think about how the time ran out. Did we bring everything we planned? Everything we needed? What God knows we will need? What we forgot or did not bring--guess it really does not matter now.
The events leading up to the time running out--our prayer time with our incredible brothers and sisters in our Sunday morning family--hard to call it a class, that sounds so formal. The connects we have made that are even deeper with family.
Th process the Lord has brought us through to this point can only lead us to firmly believe and know that what He has in mind for the next 35 days are life changing.
Thank you for joining in and following along. We wish everyone could be here to experience and catch a glimpse of what God's heart really looks like in the faces and lives of people, moms, dads, children, brothers and sisters that live in the country that is labeled the poorest in the western hemisphere.
It will be a test not just for our physical endurance but for the strength of everything that God has called us to be--as parents we cannot help but be anxiously awaiting what His plans are for aour sons. What His plans are for thier lives. This is no vacation, it is a mission.
Pray with us that we will be joyfully obedient in all things. Just because we find ourselves in Haiti does not mean we get a pass'n go card ( or something like that) like some monopoly game. We so earnestly want to hear His voice and see His heart.
"Oz" Chambers has something to say today about "Seeing the Lord"--
The Price of the Vision
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord . . . —Isaiah 6:1
Our soul’s personal history with God is often an account of the death of our heroes. Over and over again God has to remove our friends to put Himself in their place, and that is when we falter, fail, and become discouraged. Let me think about this personally— when the person died who represented for me all that God was, did I give up on everything in life? Did I become ill or disheartened? Or did I do as Isaiah did and see the Lord?
My vision of God is dependent upon the condition of my character. My character determines whether or not truth can even be revealed to me. Before I can say, "I saw the Lord," there must be something in my character that conforms to the likeness of God. Until I am born again and really begin to see the kingdom of God, I only see from the perspective of my own biases. What I need is God’s surgical procedure— His use of external circumstances to bring about internal purification.
Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God and no one else is taken into account whatsoever. Your prayer will then be, "In all the world there is no one but You, dear God; there is no one but You."
Keep paying the price. Let God see that you are willing to live up to the vision.
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