Today Was Different...
This morning as I was reading my Bible, I decided to read some old post-it notes I've had in there for a few years. The first one read, "We send our best." This made me chuckle to myself.
About six months before my husband and I felt the need to come to Germany, we had just started to work on ways to help the missions branch of our church fellowship. We were looking for ways to inform and inspire people to be the senders/givers that backed our missionaries. World missions has always held a high priority in our hearts and things had just settled down in our lives enough that we could devote some time and brainpower to help out. I guess I left these post-it notes there because I thought they were good thoughts to hold onto, but I hadn't taken the time to read them since. Until today...
Today was different. Today, for some strange reason, I took the time to read them. I hadn't written them for me. I wrote them as things to tell others. I have never and still don't think of us as "good enough" let alone our church fellowship‘s "best." When my husband had come to Germany to test and see if this is what God was really wanting him (our family) to do, I was watering the front lawn when he texted me and said, "We MUST come to Germany." I read the text, and immediately told God, "Are you sure you want US to go?!" I knew there were others way more qualified, way better at "all things ministry.“ Others who were definitely our fellowship's best way more than us. I still don't know why God would allow us to be here vs. someone else. Maybe He did call someone else and they just didn't respond. I don't know. This is why I chuckled this morning.
The second post-it read, "Greatest blessing of all- meeting someone in heaven and having them thank you for sending a missionary to them, someone who shared the Gospel so they could be saved." Now that I'm on the missionary side vs the giving side, I'm not sure who gets the greatest blessing. As of today, I'd have to say it's a tie...
I've been on the giving side. And I've been on the going side. To me, aside from family, there isn't much that is a greater blessing than to be a part of world missions.