Deeper

Could I take back that rousing speech i made the other day?  No?

That's OK, i really didn't want to anyway.

Why would i want to take it back, you ask? Because today it begins to cost something.

A very costly, but cool thing is happening around me these days. One of my children is considering going to Africa this summer.

Yeah, that's what I said, "Huh?"

To go to Africa and be with our God family there for a while. To learn from them, and live with them, and receive from them -from God. To help where they want and need help from us.

To her credit, she speaks a lot of the language, and she's been saving her cash at an amazingly motivated rate.

Now, we are asking God if this is His idea, or just ours.

And this asking is a part of what i talked of a few days ago. How can you be a believer, a disciple of Christ's, a follower of God, and not hear him? We need disciples who will practice the discipline of listening, of hearing his strong or still, small voice.

We need followers who have had to depend on Him for provision, for direction, for life.

We need more jesus people who are willing to go, at a great cost to themselves, just to listen to the songs of the lost, of the broken. And to come alongside and sing with them the song of Life. In words they understand.

And I'm not talking about dollar cost, although that will certainly be a part of it. But cost in terms of hours in prayer, in terms of hard work, in terms of cultural frustration ...

Then receiving the kinds of blessings that can only be received, through this kind of work.

So, as you think of us, call out our names to God. Call for clarity, call for provision, call for clear leading, call for the blessing.

And let's keep moving, deeper still into the heart of God, and who He is, letting the garbage fall away.