Mission Minded

8/26/12

Wow, less than a month to go before we will be on our way to Honduras! Seems hard to believe...

As the time approaches, I find myself pondering, "Am I ready to go on this trip? Am I ready to be a part of touching/changing lives? Healing the sick, watching blind eyes and deaf ears open, the dead being raised to life again, etc.. As we make our requests known to our Savior?" To be completely honest... No, I'm not... The first step is admitting it, right?

What made me realize this is Ms. Becky King (Rebecca L King) in her book, "Generational Curses Unveiled". I had started reading the book a few months ago and never finished it (sorry Becky! :)), but I picked it back up this morning to get started again and this caught my eye:

"Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. So pray to The Lord of the harvest to force out and thrust laborers into His harvest." Matthew 9:37-38 "You can't give what you don't have! If you aren't healed, then you can't help others get healed, and this is why the laborers are few."

How many of us are praying for the hurt, broken, sick, etc and not seeing many, if any, results? Many of us, myself included, jump to help our neighbors when we have our own junk we need to deal with first. "And why do you look at the speck in your brothers eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?" "Or how can you say to your brother, "Let me remove the speck from your eye" and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brothers eye." Matthew 7:3-5

Sadly, this happens all the time. All we want to see is what's going on in everyone else's lives. "Well she's lesbian, or he slept with so and so, she drinks, he does drugs." The list goes on. My point is this, don't feel like you have nothing in your own eye when you treat people differently because of their sin. The word says, "Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgement you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you." Matthew 7:1-2

Lord forgive me where I have failed You, where I have failed myself. I repent for looking at the specks in my friends, family and acquaintances eyes rather than taking care of the plank in my own. I repent for passing judgement on them in any way. I choose now to forgive those who have wrongfully accused me, talked about me, lied to me or on me and anything else that I have not covered. I choose to bless them now and I ask You to bless them too. I ask You to forgive me now and I thank You that all I have to do is ask.

These have just been some of my thoughts today. Maybe this will touch you as much as it did me. Until next time!

In Him,
Anna