I woke this morning, walked to my kitchen to get a drink of
water, looked out my window and began to cry.
I had asked God that if it were possible when I returned to America He might let me live in the country. Out my window is a most spectacular view of
the mountains. Out every other window
are trees, a white fence, a quaint little shed that looks like a miniature
house that is home to the cutest little bunny, hanging flower baskets and I am
watching the sun go down behind the trees out my living room window right
now. My apartment that sits atop a garage is absolutely beautiful. I have thought much today about a scripture
the Lord led me to when I was worrying about where I would live, where I would
work and so on. I had only been in Ghana
a few months and was already thinking about 7 months down the road. I read in the gospels that if anyone would
leave behind their homes, land, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, etc. and
go in His name He would bless them. He
has certainly blessed me. I have been
given this home for the next 12 months absolutely rent free. When God showed me this scripture He put on
my heart to stop worrying about these things.
When I did, when I said God I trust You, I received a call offering me
an accounting job for Feeding the Orphans.
I had asked God to please bless me with a job that would involve working
for His Kingdom. Righ and Kristie O’leary
and their seven children are missionaries right here in the United States. They sacrifice so much to be a blessing to
hundreds of orphans providing them with sponsors for food and education and for
single mothers helping to support their employment enabling them to keep their
children and send volunteers out monthly to meet the needs of these children. I feel so honored to have this position with
them and very blessed to be living in this beautiful home. I am so humbled that
God would do this for me.
I have spent much time thinking about the children I left
behind. I pray for them daily but I
understand that they are in God’s very capable hands. I have done what He asked me to do and
trusting Him now means accepting the new thing He is doing. That can be very difficult when you have
opened your heart to something and fallen completely in love with what you were
doing. When I left for God told me that
He would birth something and that I was to stay for 9 months. The day I left Ghana a dear friend prayed for
me. He was unaware that I had chosen 9
months because of what God spoke to my heart and in his prayer he said… I thank
you God for planting a seed in Lola’s spirit, for birthing a desire to walk in
obedience to your call on her life. I
loved God when I left here but He did birth a desire to serve Him by serving
others like I had never known before. I
feel the call on my life so strongly to go where ever and do whatever He asks me.
I promised Him in Ghana that I would never tell Him no again. What that means for me is allowing Him to
work out the details of my life, to understand that when He puts trials in my
life it is what I need to draw me closer to Him, to trust Him completely.
I know that what I did by going to Ghana was in obedience to
Him. I also know that not everyone is
called to do that but everyone IS called to service. It is all about touching the heart of God and
watching the Kingdom of Heaven reach
down and kiss earth. None of us can
afford to sit back and not be involved in touching the lives of others. We must love the way He has called us to
love. He has asked us to love others
more than ourselves, to feed the hungry, to cloth the naked, to give water to
the thirsty and to do it in His name. We
must not allow ourselves to become complacent in a world that is hurting and
needs Jesus. We must be driven by a love
for others that causes us to be compassionate, generous with our time and money,
nurturing, equipped children of God who
know their father’s heart and are willing to do whatever it takes to please Him
right where you are, or… wherever He calls you to go.
We are all so very important to our Father and to each
other. We must learn to love. I love people so much now and I have to tell
the truth, I did not before. I see that
we are all human, we all make mistakes and the ability to forgive each other
and love is honoring the cross and what Jesus accomplished that day and anything
less is trampling on the cross. For God so loved the world (each one of us)
that He gave His only begotten Son… We
have such a small window of opportunity to give back to Him. I pray that I see every opportunity and go
after it with a passion.
I LOVE THIS…
HE IS NO FOOL WHO GIVES WHAT HE CANNOT KEEP TO GAIN WHAT HE CANNOT
LOOSE.
