A missionary friend spoke in church this past Sunday, and I was moved to tears. Not necessarily for the sexually abused girls he and the IJM team rescue from brothels in India (although this would have been the proper thing to get teary-eyed about), but I cried because the miracles this missionary described could have only been God-orchestrated.
Two lessons I learned from the speaker:
1) With God the impossible is possible. Prayer is our strongest weapon.
2) God not only loves us, to the extent that He came into the dark world we live in and rescued us from bondage to sin, but He daily works in our lives, changing and transforming us through the experiences that He puts in our path. How often do we notice this?
3) Sometimes God leads us through "the valley of the shadow of death" (Ps. 23), and we question "Why did you lead us this way?" Yet, what the "sheep" don't know is that what's on the other side of the valley is well-worth the shadows.
1 Corinthians 4:17-18
"For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."
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