Chaos of my 'Deep'

So, after looking at my notes and what had just happened before in the day, I think I know why I didn't have anything to say about Chai Ling's amazing testimony from running and hiding to fleeing after standing for freedom in China, to finding freedom in Christ. She then found out about coerced abortions in China, she and a few others fighting against the injustice of hundreds of thousands of missing girls and the mothers who were forced to it in China. Dealing with her past: her distant father; her mother's death while she was exiled; her own four abortions; her sexual assault. Even with everything she had been through, God has given her forgiveness, God has given her love, God has continued to put a passion in her to seek justice in this world and be used for change. "This is your bitter cup." "This is the God who sent His very own Son to die, so that we could be forgiven, healed and be set free. Our God does not condemn us, we who are in Jesus Christ, he loves, he loves, he sacrificially, patiently loves us."

And David Platt's really powerful message on being satisfied in Christ. "In Christ we have found someone worth losing everything for. Infinitely worthy of all our trust; all our plans and dreams; all our affection. Worthy of all, our, lives."(I'll likely talk more about this later.)

Anyways, the reason I didn't really write anything probably has to do with the message in the track seminar. It was all about God's invitations in our lives and our reactions to it. After seeing God do something great, we will often be tempted to settle. Just as Peter didn't settle with fish, just as Macintosh didn't settle with the 'first computer you could pick up', so we also may need to give up things to move forward where God is calling us. A staff member in Calgary was one day meeting up with his boss expecting to talk all about how the new ministries were growing and how to continue forward, when instead they asked if he would move to Edmonton and start the ministry there. He had a whole lot of Calgary vs Edmonton conflict to deal with, as well as having two kids under 5, and a wife who also didn't really want to move. "Well, since we're Christian you should at least pray about it" was his boss' comment. haha. So they prayed 'this is how I feel about it, but we are your people'. They didn't want to, but they were willing to go where God called them. He showed in a  number of ways that 'this is where I am sending you'.

And I guess I am still settling with East Asia, even though I feel called to go elsewhere. I was really fighting at that point.

Watch This. Each day, before the Exposition of the passage in Luke by Calisto, there would be a performance about either the Bible Study's passage or the next passage. This one is about when Jesus calls Peter and his friends to go out into the deep and fish in the day. The part of 'Jesus' at the end. Those words just resonate so deeply. "Leave your boats, drop your nets, come and follow me." "I've come rescue the world from the chaos of the deep. Leave your boats, drop your nets, come and follow me." "Leave your boats, drop your nets, come and follow me."

Ttyl.

D.Fa