God is continuing his refining work in my life and the life of my family. As ridiculous and arrogant as it sounds, I really believed that when we left the States three years ago for the field that I was leaving some sinful attitudes behind as well. I thought I was, at least for the most part, moving beyond materialism… I couldn’t have been more wrong. Here I sit, three years later, and God is challenging me to the core of my being in areas that I didn’t even realize required change.
Here is a question I have been pondering lately- What are you really doing for the Glory of God? Am I giving Him my all?
If your answer starts the way mine usually does (Well, I do this and this and that…), stop and ponder the question for a couple of days.
I’m a Christian and a missionary, of course I’m serving God… but to what extent? With what percentage of my life and energy?
I don’t have the answers. I simply know that I must look more and more like Jesus and less and less like myself.
WE all need to be more like Jesus!
Oh, John, you keep hitting us between the eyes, yet your humility in admitting your own shortcomings remove the possibility of fingerpointing that would allow us to lapse into a defensive mode, leaving us to face the sad truth that we are all utterly, hopelessly in need of redemption. Then I remember….we ARE redeemed!!! And I am given new hope that I might creep closer to the person I was created to be. Thank you for your unfailing honesty.