“We know that if the life we live here on earth is ever taken down like a tent, we still have a building from God. It is an eternal house in heaven that isn’t made by human hands. In our present tent-like existence we sigh, since we long to put on the house we will have in heaven. After we have put it on, we won’t be naked. While we are in this tent, we sigh. Then eternal life will put an end to our mortal existence. God has prepared us for this and given us his Spirit to guarantee it.”
These past three and a half months have been the craziest, hardest, most amazing, life changing months of my life. We’ve worked with orphans, the children’s hospital, prostitute, the elderly, and people who live and work at the garbage dump. We’ve dealt with parasites, bed bugs, lice, stomach viruses, and virtually any other illness you can think of. It’s been three and a half months of learning to live in a community of 22 people that couldn’t be more different from each other. Learning to serve and love and walk alongside each other through our different struggles that popped up multiple times each day.
Through it all, God has been teaching me more and more about home. The homes we create here on this earth are like a tent…temporary, unsatisfying, and uncomfortable. People will let us down, even those we won’t expect to. Human plans will fall through. Sickness and death are certain, and we have to fight against our flesh that wants to lead us to sin every single day.
So while we are here on this earth, God beckons us to find our home in Him. His resting place is one of peace, joy, love. When we dwell within Him, our lives will be so radically changed!! When we are with Him, there is freedom and there is LIFE!!!!
And we’ve watched people find this life, both in the people we minister to and to ourselves. The most recently example wour in our last night of ministry. Bar Popeye became our favorite bar, not just because of the women that worked there’d but because of the sense we all had that God had his hand over that place. We brought one of the ladies a bible, and her daughter has been reading it. Last time we were there, she told us that she is always reading her bible now, and wants God to help her understand it so she can show it to her mom. A light has been lit, and we pray that it is continues to burn.
God, may this light never be extinguished. Let the work you have done here be a foundation for others to build upon in the future. Continue to give life and hope to the people of Puerto Barrios and Santo Tomas, freeing them from the darkness and witchcraft and legalism that ensnares them. You are such a good, good Father with a good, good heart. Thank you for loving these people more than they could ever imagine, and for loving us the same way. Help them to see your light. Help them to find life.
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