We came home from our mission trip last night and I already miss the beautiful Costa Rica weather, Jason and Kerby and my Grace mission family! We worked hard and really bonded as a team. But just because the trip is over, it doesn't mean the mission is! The thing about going on mission is that you tend to receive more of a blessing than the ones you go to serve....funny how that happens. The more the you sacrifice and give and serve, the more God blesses! The main thing I want for myself as well as for the rest of my team mates is for our mission to keep going!! I'm praying that we can use our experience in Costa Rica to help people here. Whether it be to share our testimony with a coworker or to be more active in our church or community, we need to keep serving the Lord right where we are. We need to continue to step out of our comfort zone and stretch our faith so we can keep growing! It would be a shame to leave our mission in Costa Rica when, in fact we should be on mission everywhere we go. I was reminded this week of how precious my relationship with Christ is, and how I need to take more time getting to know Him deeper so I can be a better reflection of Him to the world.
That's my mission.....what's yours?
Excellent! Thank you guys for your help. It was an amazing blessing! Y'all are awesome!
ReplyDeleteIsaiah 55
ReplyDeleteInvitation to the Thirsty
1 “Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
2 Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and you will delight in the richest of fare.
3 Give ear and come to me;
listen, that you may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
my faithful love promised to David.
4 See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
a ruler and commander of the peoples.
5 Surely you will summon nations you know not,
and nations you do not know will come running to you,
because of the LORD your God,
the Holy One of Israel,
for he has endowed you with splendor.”
6 Seek the LORD while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the LORD.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
12 You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the LORD’s renown,
for an everlasting sign,
that will endure forever.”