Well its our first morning waking up at Makarios house. As usual God has woken me up very early. I think because once the house wakes up, it is so busy that there is little time to reflect. Last night I was reading a chapter from Radical by David Platt. It was all about how once you sign on with Jesus you can expect to suffer. Wow sounds really enticing doesn’t it? Thing is that the Christian life is really hard. When you follow the path He lays out for you its going to be hard. It will stretch you and bring you to the very end of yourself.
But that’s the point isn’t it? Like John the Baptist said-I must get smaller and smaller so you can be bigger and bigger.” More of you and less of me. Sometimes that kind of growing isn’t much fun. We all experienced a little of it yesterday. But you know what? We did it. And He was with us. And no one on this trip will be able to say that God did not do a work in them. And our suffering is so minimal compared to the people in El Saman. We were whisked away to luxury in a few hours. They are still there in that wet cold stack of boards and scrap metal that is there home. Like Greg said yesterday, it is very humbling. Sometimes sickening. But where there is Christ there is always hope and today we get to go back to that place, hug those kids. Sing with them and play with them, and the building team gets to finish helping Jesus build a home for them. There is no end to what God can do with a surrendered life.
Please pray for the weather today. We need to work on the roof and if it is wet it could be "interesting".
Here are some pictures of Miguel and his family, and also what some of the houses looked like after the rain. Hasta pronto
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