Thursday, October 05, 2006

No Go on Zambia

Yet again I was told that I should prepare to go to Zambia for a month and am no longer going. Which I am very excited about. During the month of November I was suppose to take off to Zambia and go through some more training. Basically they wanted to send me back to "the farm" except it would be located in Zambia and not in Virginia. And while I was there I would again be learning about culture and how to learn a language and health issues, etc. Things that I thought I learned back between March and May. I wasn't really happy about this because I didn't want to have to leave the relationships I have started to build and then have to return and almost have to start all over again. And on top of that I was going to be out of what I now know as familiar during a month that will most likely be very hard for me due to Thanksgiving and my birthday taking place then. I had let go of my selfishness on this though because I knew that if the Lord wanted me there He was going to take me there. I came to a point where I realized that you know what I'm doing here in Dar is not really my ministry and my doing anyway, it's the Lord's. And so if He wanted me to go somewhere else and speak truth into the lives that I came across there I would go. He did tell me to pick up and move to Africa and here I am. Who's to say that for the next two years He's going to keep me here the whole time anyway? Only Him! So by His power I was able to say ok if Zambia is where I am to be during November then to Zambia I will go. And I just trusted that He was going to take care of the relationships that I had already started building. You know He was here before I got here, He's still here while I'm here and He will still be here when I leave. But the minds of some people were changed and here I am not going to Zambia. So basically want to leave you with this...wherever the Lord leads I will follow...He is what life is all about anyway!

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