18 Jul Summer LINK Honduras: What I’ve Been Learning
It’s wonderful here. The Lord is teaching me so many awesome things. He’s taught me about my continual need for the Gospel. That yes, He saved me one time, but that doesn’t mean that my sinning stopped when that happened. That didn’t mean that I stopped being selfish right on the spot. I’m learning more and more about my need for Christ. That He is what matters and that His work never stops being relevant to my life. That I should wake up and praise Him for the life that He has given us. Friends, this is huge news! Our savior didn’t work once and then go back to his cave to dwell… He wants to do life with us everyday!! I’m learning to be naked in front of The Lord. To show Him who I really am, and let Him work with what He’s got. Too often we are hiding from the Father when He just wants us to reveal ourselves to Him.
We are reading through the book of Hosea, and it talks about being adulterous to The Lord. That He is our first love and how He has wrath on anything that is placed before us. It’s challenging to see all the different characteristics of our God. Yes He loves, but He is also mad and jealous when you put things before Him. Be brave and really look at what He has to say about us putting idols and other things before Him. But the great news is that this only points to our need for the Gospel. God knows that our sin causes us to put idols in front of Him, that’s why He sent Jesus so that we wouldn’t be eternally doomed. What He cares about is you being honest about it. Owning up to the fact that I put desire for money over The Lord, or that my desire to go to medical school trumped the presence that God was trying to have in my life. And then we go do something about it. We look our sin in the eyes and get fired up. We know that it’s not ok, we know that it’s wrong. God will help us change it.. to punch sin right in the face. But we have to ask Him to help. We can’t win this battle by ourselves, we NEED His help!! That my friends, is just a snippet of what I am learning here in the beautiful country of Honduras. I’m learning to look at myself more honestly and see my need for Christ every single day. I can’t do it by myself, and it’s about time I stopped trying.
Also, our house is surrounded by mangos and every hour or so a massive mango comes crashing down. I’m hoping that in our month long visit someone is walking by (could even be me) and gets nailed by one. It’s all about the stories, right? Also there is a beautiful beach that we can see from our front porch.
By: Steven Carroll
We are reading through the book of Hosea, and it talks about being adulterous to The Lord. That He is our first love and how He has wrath on anything that is placed before us. It’s challenging to see all the different characteristics of our God. Yes He loves, but He is also mad and jealous when you put things before Him. Be brave and really look at what He has to say about us putting idols and other things before Him. But the great news is that this only points to our need for the Gospel. God knows that our sin causes us to put idols in front of Him, that’s why He sent Jesus so that we wouldn’t be eternally doomed. What He cares about is you being honest about it. Owning up to the fact that I put desire for money over The Lord, or that my desire to go to medical school trumped the presence that God was trying to have in my life. And then we go do something about it. We look our sin in the eyes and get fired up. We know that it’s not ok, we know that it’s wrong. God will help us change it.. to punch sin right in the face. But we have to ask Him to help. We can’t win this battle by ourselves, we NEED His help!! That my friends, is just a snippet of what I am learning here in the beautiful country of Honduras. I’m learning to look at myself more honestly and see my need for Christ every single day. I can’t do it by myself, and it’s about time I stopped trying.
Also, our house is surrounded by mangos and every hour or so a massive mango comes crashing down. I’m hoping that in our month long visit someone is walking by (could even be me) and gets nailed by one. It’s all about the stories, right? Also there is a beautiful beach that we can see from our front porch.
By: Steven Carroll