Traveling is never fun. Planes, buses, luggage… Traveling in Central America is somewhere between terrifying and exhilarating. It is in those moments that you get to see a glimpse at God. Waking up at 4 and loading your family on a bus to travel across the border of Nicaragua and then hop off the bus in some tiny town and hopefully there is a guy to pick you up out of the mess of taxi drivers and whisk you away. Each time we have landed in a new country there has been a tiny sliver of time that we were alone. All by ourselves, just the Hamptons, and the rest of the world. Nobody has your back. Nobody to call on. It is a tiny microscopic glimpse into what it must be like to live here. But then after a short time a person arrives that was sent there by the Lord and he whisks you away and takes you to a beautiful place. Some amazing place with friendly faces and free flowing love and kindness.
I think a relationship with Jesus is just like that. We are born into this world and things are tough. Things happen to us that are scary and terrible. We live a life here on earth. But He was sent to save us. He is that guy. This lifetime on earth, all we are given is a sliver of an eternity. 5 minutes maybe. When you have that moment when you are alone and there is nobody. Maybe He is now. Jesus will speak to your heart and invite you to get in His vehicle and take a ride. I humbly ask to speak from experience, staying behind and not going with Him is not a good idea…
Ephesians 3:14-19 – For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory He may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith – that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.