What do you always find time for?
What matters to me?
What will I give all my savings to?
What or Who am I allowing to be my Master?
Take a dollar for example. The way I'd spend it is probably different from the way you'd spend it and neither of us may be wrong in how we use it. TM used this as an example at the homeless shelter this week in his message. Values... mine...yours... God's...
As I've been telling people recently that I'm going back to Asia, I've gotten a variety of responses. Some positive. Some questioning that I would go "Again." When it comes down to it, I think it's basically a difference in our values.
For me, Asia/Burmese ppl/human trafficking/member care floats about the top of my list. For starters, I've felt God calling me in this direction. For another reason, it's God's heart that His people go and tell about His glory. He didn't bless me to hog it all to myself. He's blessed me to share the teaching that I've gotten, the money I've made, the faith I have with anyone that crosses my path and anything else He's given me.
Having said all that, there is a part of me that would love to just not be so "out of the box." To just be more "normal." Whatever that is?!!!!!!!!! At the same time, I have zero regrets about where God has taken me over the years. It's been an amazing ride and most certainly is far from boring.
So because I already love these people and care about them on both sides of the globe, I'm going to dive into learning a language that is very different from my own. I'm gonna go in over my head and because I know God, I know I'll survive with crazy stories that are full of His fingerprints. And whatever He's going to teach me along the way may create more "unique and unusual" things in my worldview but I know it's going to be good.
"My Thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My Ways." That means a shift in values. It means being a "peculiar person" for His glory. It means I no longer try to be my kind of "normal" but His kind of 'normal'.
Pray with me as I go on this journey of faith.
