Humility & Glory

“I wondered why the good man dies, bad man thrives, and Jesus cries ‘cause He loves them both, we’re all castaways in need of rope…” – Josh Garrels

“Break my heart for what breaks Your’s, everything I am for Your kingdom’s cause, as I walk from earth into eternity.” – Hillsong

“No guilt in life, no fear in death, this is the power of Christ in me!” – Keith and Kristen Getty

Although my sleeping time was short lived last night, waking up was well worth it. My day began praying with several other members of my team. God really blessed our time together in prayer and reading His word. It was the best start of a day that I can think of.

Today we spent our time at the Home of Love both painting and leading the first day of VBS. Organizing and leading music for this VBS confirms in me again not only how much I love doing things like this, but also that I want to continue doing ministry for the rest of my life. I find so much joy in seeing girls catch on to motions to songs and sing.

Interestingly, as we were starting the VBS, rain clouds blew in for the first time since we’ve been here. As I was teaching “All Because of Jesus,” the rain started to fall and then the clouds let loose right as we were singing, “To [God] be the glory!” Then, later, when the rain was subsiding, we began to learn the song again and as we were singing “To [God] be the glory!”, the lights turned back on and the background music worked. I find it almost funny that there have been so many times when something like a powerful message was being preached, a big storm blew in our the power went out. I can’t help but think that the devil tries to hard to distract people from important things God has for them. But God is greater—and today was still a success, rain or not.

God has been speaking to me about two main things today—humility and glory. On a team with so many talented people, it could be so easy to try to outdo someone else to better ourselves in pride. God asks something different, however. He calls us to be humble. As for glory, God deserves all the glory in all that we do. We must live by the power that only He can give to glorify God to the extent we ought to.

You may have noticed that I posted several quotes at the beginning of this post. On the bus ride back from Home of Love today, I kept thinking about how disgusting sin is. There were several stories told earlier today along with the thought of what these girls may have gone through in their past that make me feel sick and heartbroken, which led to a lot of tears. These things that made me cry break God’s heart. He hates perversion and injustice. But wait—He also hates my sin. How crazy and incredible is it that, that God sent Jesus to die for my sins and for the sins of people who do things that should make us sick!