This started as we understood the needs of the organization
and noticed how we had specific gifts and abilities to meet these needs and a passion to reach at-risk children. And really like the direction of WGO. As we spoke to the leadership we found that
not only did we think we fit they asked me to consider a position that really
ignited my imagination and pulled at our hearts. Then we started to pray and asked others to
pray, asking them to especially pray that God would make his desires for our
life clear.
This makes it sound like it was all pretty easy to roll all
this together in our heads. But, it has
been a tug-o-war with our heart. It has
been back and forth as my wife and I talk through what God is doing in our
lives, I am truly bless with a Godly wife, with her eyes always in God’s
word. So some days I am all for it and
other days I am fearful, but on those days my wife encourages me and back and
forth. I am responsible for the mission committee at
our Church and I see what it takes to raise support. And I also have 4 kids, how does it work to
uproot my children and move. We are just
learning Spanish and can barely speak the language. I walk through my home and I am deeply in
love with my stuff and all my little home improvement projects. All of our fears and excuses seem to be
rooted in baseless wants and desires.
But, God is continually encouraging us in forward a motion, it
has been amazing how God has encouraged and directed us. This does this mean a
decision is made? No.. But,
my wife and I have decided that we are following Jesus for a life time and that
means doing the hard things too. So we are
trying to discern what God is doing, part if that means we need to explore. We changed our vacation plans and decided we
need to take some time to listen and see.
So we will be taking our family to Honduras for 2 weeks in
February. We felt the best way to
understand what it would be like to raise a family in Honduras would be to
take our family. So all six of us now have our passports and plans our set.
We have been wrestling with a passage in Matthew 12 where
the Pharisees are asking Jesus for another sign, Jesus calls them
faithless. The reason Jesus has a
problem with their request is the fact that they have heard about everything
he has already done. Jesus lists other towns that have been more faithful with
less signs. I think it is really tempting to wait until we are
sure he really means it by ignoring what God is already doing in our
lives. Like with our kids how many
times do we have to tell them to do something before they should get it done. We expect that if they hear and instruction
once they should immediately follow through.
But, many times they are so caught us doing what they want to do that
they have no problem waiting for the 4th or 5th
request. I am not afraid that God will
ask me to do something but whether or not I will stop to listen and follow
through.
