The Nations.
There is no greater school in life, then to go out into the nations & get to know one self.
If I think back on 2014 - the year I did Global Challenge - and people would ask me if it was a good- or bad year, I would reply. It was not one of the two. It was a year that I have learned so much — about myself, about people, about life and above all else, about Father’s heart for the nations.
You see we as humans love our comfort zones, and comfort zones is equal to “building a wall” for yourself. And it is so much harder for us to do something on the other side of the “wall”, then when we are at home in our own countries, as when we are in some foreign country abroad.
Why? Why, is that so?
One other thing that made me think
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Now I would say, to be comfortable out of your comfort zone, does not happen in one days outreach, but in more then 40 days of serving, and traveling with a bunch of people that you have never met, all with their different ways, and some of there ways will irritate you until the end of days, but I guess that will be for the better.
I really think the Apostle Paul, was quite right when he said, in his book the Epistle to the Romans, in the 12th chapter, that it all starts to and I quote, “be transformed by the renewing of your mind”.
How do we renew our minds? By living out love? In the 13th chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, also written by Paul the Apostle, is written a great summary of how love looks like.
1 Corinthians 13 (ESV)
The Way of Love
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all
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