You haven't truly gone through a traumatic experience until you have dealt with your first child's stomach bug. Absolutely no concept of running to the toilet or garbage can, will leave quite a mess on your hands, well and everywhere else! Cade is recovering from his first stomach bug, and doing quite well now. He never really acted like he felt bad, it was a time where I got to learn a little bit about life from him.
The first time he was sick, he just sat in it and talked happily for about 15 minutes. This was because he was in the back seat, and we had no clue, then we discovered he had thrown up. We as humans can be like that so many times. Just sitting in our own filth, and not even realizing it. Cade needed someone to tell him about his mess, clean him up, and help him into new clothes. Isnt it awesome how the Holy Spirit does that with us? He reveals our sin, through Christs work we are cleaned, and now we walk in the new clothes of the spirit.
The last couple of weeks have also flown by, mainly because we have spent roughly 120 hours completly devoted to our support raising. It has averaged out to about 60 hours a week. Praise the Lord that we do not have to worry about having a second job!
The other day as I was doing some things to prepare for our next prayer letter, I realized some daunting statistics. There are 91 million people in Central Asia, only one half of one percent know Christ!! Only 455,000 people in this area of the world larger than the US know our wonderful Lord and saviour!!! If this is not a ripe field, I do not know what is.
Finally, in my personal time with the Lord lately, I have really been pursuing and intimate understanding of the Kingdom of God. Not just to know it, but to communicate it, to live in it, and not become crippled by thinking it is only a thing of the future. The most incredible thing that I have found so far, is that the Greek root word for Kingdom is walk or pace. When the Bible is telling us to seek first the kingdom, it is not telling us to seek after a place we go when we die, but, in context, it is saying dont worry about life, dont worry about what circumstances have befallen you, seek his kingdom in your walk!!!Pursue Righteousness, Pursue holiness, pursue His fame on the earth. Dont just become downcast and say woe is me, but love others in spite of those things, provide whatever you can for a brother, or unbeliever in need, do as Christ did and go and meet the people where they are at. That is where we find the kingdom, that is where our walk takes us.
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