Sunday, February 8, 2015

Josh's Trip

In 4 short days, I will be heading to Haiti to "get a feel" for what could potentially be our new home.  I will be working with the same eye surgery team (different members) as Tara did.  The difference is that Tara is a registered nurse, and while I have some medical background, am nowhere near as skilled in this area, so I'm not sure at all what I will be doing while I'm there.  After the busyness of the past few weeks, I'm finally starting to get excited about the trip!
On a separate note, Tara and I are constantly amazed and reminded that God is in control.  With the time between the time we hope to move and now, we have been concerned that the excitement would go away, and that we would start questioning God's calling in our lives.  God continues to bring encouragement and reminders into our lives.  Today, our pastor gave a message about the Israelites wandering in the dessert.  The message was titled "The Space Between."  He talked about how what should have been an 11 day journey from Mt. Hebron to Israel took 39 years.  When God speaks through our pastor to us, Tara and I have a tendency to look at each other and giggle a little because we know that He is sustaining us through the down times.  Today's message did come with a warning though.  During their time in the dessert, God supplied the Israelites with manna to keep them fed.  When they grew tired of the manna, they complained to God that they didn't have meat, and that they would have been better off in Egypt where they had plenty of meat to eat.  God gave them meat, but had this to say in Numbers 11:18-20, "18“Say to the people, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, “Oh that someone would give us meat to eat! For we were well-off in Egypt.” Therefore the LORD will give you meat and you shall eat. 19‘You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days, 20but a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you; because you have rejected the LORD who is among you and have wept before Him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?”’”
I think I can speak for Tara in saying that we are both taking the message given today to heart.  Here is the sermon:

Look for pictures from the trip after I return!

-Josh

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