That Day Was Different...

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That day was different...as I was reading my Bible, I decided to read some old post-it notes I'd had in there for a few years. The first one read, "We send our best." And this literally made me laugh out loud.

To set the stage for you, we'd been in Germany about a year by then, as church planting missionaries... but the story starts below...

About six months before our family felt the call to go to Germany, we had (once again) started to work on ways to help the missions branch of our fellowship. We were looking for ways to inform and inspire people to be the senders/givers that backed our missionaries.

World missions has always held a high priority in our hearts and things had just settled down in our lives enough so, that we could devote some time and brainpower to help out. I guess I left these post-it notes there, knowing we would continue that work later, but I hadn't taken the time to read them since. Until that day...

That day, for some strange reason, I took the time to read them. I hadn't written them for me. I wrote them as things to tell others. I've never really thought of us as "good enough," let alone our fellowship‘s "best."

My husband had gone to Germany to make sure that's what God was really wanting for our family to do. One day while he was there in Germany, I was outside watering the front lawn when he texted me and said, "We MUST come to Germany." I read the text, and immediately told God, "Are you sure you want US to go?!"

I wasn't really asking. It was more of a statement... you know, like, "Hey, God, don't you think you should send someone else?"

I knew there were others way more qualified, way better at "all things ministry.“ Others who were definitely our fellowship's best, way more than us. I still don't know why God would allow us to have gone vs. someone else. Maybe He did call someone else and they just didn't respond. I don't know. But that's why I laughed that morning.

The second post-it read, "Greatest blessing of all- meeting someone in heaven and having them thank you for sending a missionary to them, someone who shared the Gospel so they could be saved." Now that I've been on both the missionary side and the giving side, I'm not sure who gets the greatest blessing. As of today, I'd have to say it's a tie...

I've been on the giving side. And I've been on the going side. To me, aside from family, there isn't much that's a greater blessing to be part of, in one way or another, than world missions.

I thank God, that no matter how I "feel," or view myself, He qualifies me. He qualifies those who are willing to obey Him. It doesn't matter how big your "following" is. Our how large your bank account is. What matters is, are we willing to obey Him in any and every area?

Maybe what you do seems insignificant or maybe you feel like there's someone else who's better qualified... eh... Those are feelings and thoughts from our own minds. I guarantee you that isn't how God thinks. He says, "My ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts."

I've learned that when we obey Him and follow him, he directs our steps, giving us wisdom and "know how" for every situation... which is qualifying us. We direct our lives by faith in what God said and not by how we think, feel, or see.

This was taken during a bbq outreach at our home in Germany. The purpose was to build relationships with some of the teenagers in in a nearby boys' home. They had fled to Germany during the 2016 refugee crisis. At the time, they barely spoke German, so communication was an issue, but showing love and building relationship was key. Never underestimate what God can do with an obedient person(s).

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