When I die...
... I want to have lived a life that touched the individual. But for that to happen does it not mean that I must first see the individual?
... I want people to say of me that I inspired others and gave them passion and hope. But does that not mean I must be inspired and myself possess passion and hope?
... I want people to be at peace at my funeral. But does that not mean I need to live a full life, completing the work my Father gives so that at the end the only thing left to do is go home?
As you can probably guess I have been contemplating some of the deeper things in life and I am in the process if being inspired, gaining passion and maintaining hope. I am reading missionary biographies and autobiographies and it is indeed very encouraging and motivational. Something of a theme has been coming through these books and that is God’s provision. I myself can testify to the fact that if God calls you He will provide! Look at the best example of God providing in the Bible: God called the Israelites out of Egypt and He sustained them (all 3 point something million of them) IN THE DESSERT of all places and for no less than 40 YEARS! As Hudson Taylor put it “depend upon it, God’s work, done in God’s way, will never lack God’s supplies.”
I am excited to see how God will continue to supply for the garibouts in Mali and for me working with them. In using the word supply I mean so much more than money, I mean: food, good health, friends, livelihoods, joy, energy... and oh so much more.
... so now go...
Be inspired and one day you may be the inspiration
Be impassioned and one day you may be the passion
Be hopeful and one day you may be the hope
1 comments:
Good pondering! :)
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