In His presence is where I find rest, hope, purpose.
Without Christ, without the hope I have in Him and the Gospel, I have no life, I have no purpose.
Lord willing, I will book my flight ticket to Kenya this week! I would leave May 22nd.
Its been so encouraging to see how the LORD has opened doors and continues to confirm this trip.
My heart cry is that I would be obedient and go. That He would use me to bring glory to His name, that many would come to know Him and be saved. That the orphans that I will be living with will see Christ in me. That I would love on them like He loves me. That when I go and teach at the local primary school, it would be the Spirit speaking through me to those children. Teaching them about Jesus....reading them Bible stories, telling them of about all the awesome things God has done and continues to do.
Today after church, an old dear friend of mine named Tai and I went to starbucks to catch up in life. I had shared with her my plans to go to Kenya and what I'll be doing over there...the opportunities He has provided...how I would be serving...etc. As her and I were talking...an old passage in the book of Exodus came to mind. "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." Beautiful. I ran to my car and got my ESV...and started reading to her:
"Moses said to the Lord, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people,’ but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.’ Now therefore, if I have found favor in Your sight, please show me now Your ways, that I may know You in order to find favor in Your sight. Consider too that this nation is Your people.” And He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” And he said to Him, “If Your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here. For how shall it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not in Your going with us, so that we are distinct, I and Your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?” And the Lord said to Moses, “This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.” Moses said, “Please show me Your glory.” And He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you My name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. But,” He said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see Me and live.” And the Lord said, “Behold, there is a place by Me where you shall stand on the rock, and while My glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with My hand until I have passed by. Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen.”" -Exodus 33:12-23.
Our God is so faithful, so gracious, so loving towards His children! Even though Moses had no idea what he was asking for when he said "Please show me Your glory," Yahweh was so merciful towards him...He didn't give Moses what he has asked for...God didn't show him His face...He didn't kill Moses! The reality is this: I wouldn't want to go to Kenya if it weren't God who was leading the way. If it wasn't Him who continues to confirm that He is sending me there. Yahweh's presence will go with me, and He will give me rest.
The Hope in Christ - Matumaini yetu katika Kristo.
My hope is Yahweh, my hope is in Christ, my hope is in the Gospel.
I am nothing. He is EVERYTHING. I am just a speck of dust that He chooses to use for His glory. The Creator of the universe give His children the privilege to go and share what Christ has done! To go for Him.
Like Isaiah, I simply shout, "SEND ME! SEND ME!"
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