When I look back...I am stirred by the thought of the number of people whom I have to thank for what they gave me or for what they were to me. So as I sit here in the airport anticipating my upcoming journey to Uganda I say thank you with much appreciation and gratitude to all that have touched my life and will continue to touch my life in such away that words cannot express. This Heaven Called journey could not be a reality without God's guidance and blessing and the outpouring of support that I have received.
I believe God never intended for us to be mere recipients of His love, but He calls us to share it with others. We are not to be reservoirs, but channels by which His love can reach the world. When He pours out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, He wants us to leak like a sieve... The whole point of being blessed is to pass the blessing on to others. Whether we are traveling across the world or in our own backyard. I would ask all of you to remember this for your own lives. God is writing His story and He invites us to write it with Him. We become God's missionary people by joining Christ in the story line of other's lives. And this is the grand narrative that makes sense of life: God is reconciling the world to Himself, and we are invited to join Him. Let's all join Him. Press in deep and ask "What is God's mission for me? How can I share His love with others?"
We know what real love is because Jesus gave up His life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters... Dear children, let's not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions. Our actions will show that we belong to the truth. 1 John 3:16, 18-19
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