God's Message

As only God can do, He has turned our disappointed and frustration around today into joy and peace. Nothing has changed in the area of school supplies or banking issues, but we had a good service at church today that went straight to our hearts. The sermon was about Joseph and Mary and the struggle they must have endured with people questioning why he married her even though she was with child and people may have shamed and shunned Mary for her pregnancy outside marriage. The pastor pointed out that it took 30 years for Joseph and Mary to even begin to understand what God had planned. 30 years of questioning looks and 30 years of wondering what did it really mean to be the parents of God's Son.

Then the pastor took an unexpected turn and began to talk about what God has called each of us to do and asked whether or not we are obeying that call. He walked around the congregation and started saying things like has he called you from being a teacher into adopting 10 children from Africa, has He called you from being a regular pilot into being a pastor pilot, and then when he was standing near us (and we have never been to this church and he does not know our story), and said, 'has He called you from being an accountant into being a youth care worker'. My eyes welled up with tears and it was like a message straight from God. He has called us here and we obeyed His call. Why are we disappointed? Why are we not trusting Him for every detail? Why do we have doubts? It was as if we were meant to be there this morning because the message was just for us :)

He went on to talk about what would have happened if Joseph would have refused to marry Mary or what if he decided to not go to Egypt when the angel told him to take Mary and Jesus. Egypt was a foreign land. He had no connections, no family, and no friends and he just had to go for the safety of Jesus who wasn't even his own son (through blood anyway). I have joked a few times with a friend of mine who really did not want me to leave and I told her that I have to come to Lesotho because I don't want to be swallowed by a whale or carried away by an enormous eagle, but in all honesty God has a plan for each and every one of us and we need to just trust His plan and obey it because you never know who you are meant to touch or lead to Christ (it could be just one person or a whole group of people). We needed the reminder and I am sure we will need plenty more in the next 5 years. Thanks you so much for helping us be here and being our encouragement because we KNOW God wants us here right now.

I have some cute little kids to go play with 3 of my own and about 30 others :)
Have a blessed Sunday,
Anita