Many are the plans in the mind of the man but it is the purpose of the Lord that will Stand.
Proverbs 19:21
Lacking any huge revelations from the Lord, and having been in Kolkata for a while now I feel like it’s appropriate to share where I’m at with the Lord and some of what’s happening with me. I’ve found myself needing to rest in this proverb and the truth that it tells. See, I’ve loved my time here in India. I have been accepting each day here as a gift. I’ve been able to see new things, meet new people, and have learned much from the Lord. I can now say, I’ve experienced an Indian bus ride (super packed and not lacking in odor) seen more idols than I care to count, met little girls and boys who have heads much too big for their malnutritioned little bodies and have fallen in love with the 15 boys at ASHA mission (the orphanage where our ministry is based).
My maker has met with me here and I didn’t want all this to end. I’d decided that four months just wasn’t enough. I wanted to serve my awesome amazing Abba more. So I made some plans and had set my mind (and apparently my heart) on serving on another trip this summer to Africa.
When it started to look like I couldn’t serve this summer (or at least in the way I wanted to) I was pretty bummed. I kept hearing the words that I kept repeating to my team for the last two weeks. “I’ll do whatever the Lord calls me to, I trust him with my future (and my favorite) I’ll be happy to go wherever he leads me.” When Swaziland was taken off the table I had to put to work the words that I has so easily and boldly declared to my team. And had to ask myself if I really meant it. Do I really trust the Lord with my future however close or far away it is? Can I still serve and glorify the Lord if I’m working at a greasy fast food joint or bumming off friends couches and eating Ramen chicken noddle soup every night?
I think yes.
And although the months following my return to the states may or may not look like I would like them to look, I serve a good God. Who loves me beyond description and wants more for me. So if that means me serving him somewhere in Asia or Timbuktu or at McDonald’s down the street from my house God will work it out. He is ridiculously faithful and has plans that are far better than my own.
