Thursday, September 8, 2011
Above all, love each other deeply because love covers over a multitude of sins..." 1 Peter 4:8
I have been in Peru for seven months now and have less than four left. Sometimes I think about my experience and wish I would see something "big" happen. For example, the behavior of my kids is still not stable, one day they can be great and the next terrible. I want them to get better and stay better, I would love to see a marked change in them (especially in my 6th graders who have been a tough class for a while). Or you hear so many missionary stories about leading people to Christ. I don't feel like I have a "big" experience like that. This is what God told me, if all you do while in Peru is love on those kids, love the people you work with and the people you come in contact with, that's more than enough. Then He gave me this verse: "If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing," 1 Corinthians 13:1-3. These verses show how important love is to God and I think we overlook it so much because we want to see something happen, we want a result. But I felt God telling me that I may never see one or it may be a while until I see one, but to just love. Love is enough.
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