HOLINESS + HEAVINESS

I’ve been a missionary my whole adult career. I’m not naive to spiritual resistance and attack. The warfare has always been (Genesis 3) and always will be until the Lord comes again(Come, Lord Jesus!).

But I will say that this Past season has been some of the heaviest spiritually I have encountered in a long time, maybe ever. But then, after beginning a training at a local church about how to welcome well those of benevolent need, “the least of these,” into their fold with love and understanding, I saw the sun breaking through the clouds at sunset. The light, “the true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world” (John 1:9).

Press on

It’s hard because ground is being broken. It’s heavy because it’s holy. It feels dark because our world is. But light is shining: The Haven Maternity Home is open. Women who have never known anything but brokenness are now living under safe shelter. Housing and food insecurity are gone. Lives are being saved.

And I am completely convinced the Lord wants to do even more among and through His children in these days.

I confess leading where God has planted me and my family is intense and the sacrifices some days feel too much. But I cling to Jesus’ words:

“I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in darkness” (John 12:46).

And so onward we press.