Isn’t that nice of Him? We get to go.
How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news,
proclaim peace, bring glad tidings of good things,
proclaim salvation, and proclaim to Zion, "Your God reigns!"
Isaiah 52: 7
When He says "Go", pretty much all you can do is say, "sure". I guess "No" would work too, if you had no fear of God or disobedience (think Jonah). God is calling us to move to Spain long term, to be missionaries, all we know now is that we need to be obedient, each little decision and step at a time. We are asking Jesus to call us out onto the water with him, to feel the faith within us swell when we are walking on the water, and then the second fear and dobut seep in His hand is there to catch us.
This is what our son Jackson (5 years old) had to say about Spain, the following conversation is what he said the first time we told him that we were moving to Spain for good:
b: God is telling us He wants us to go live in Spain and tell people about Jesus. We are going to live there and be missionaries for a long time.
j: (Huge smile) That is so nice of Him!
b: what do you mean?
j: I mean, we like Spain and it is so nice of Him to send us somewhere we already want to go! Isn't that nice of Him?
It is more than nice of Him, we are honoured to be called, it is an honour to go, to be used, to get to live in a far away place, and get to sew seeds into the place where I grew up. Spain, it certainly is nice of God to let us go somewhere we want to go. Children and their blind faith--but maybe it is more than that, God spoke through a donkey didn't He now?
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July 9th, 2009 - 13:37
What a wonderful and sweet response from your son!
Keep us updated – best wishes to you on your mission.
July 9th, 2009 - 19:02
I will certainly keep you updated, I’ll update here for sure.
July 9th, 2009 - 13:44
SQUEEEE!!! OMG I’m so excited for you! And yes, that IS nice of Him.
July 9th, 2009 - 13:51
How exciting for all of you!!!
July 9th, 2009 - 13:54
Where in Spain? I was just in Barcelona last weekend!
July 9th, 2009 - 19:03
Who knows long term, but we feel like we are going to work with my parents for a while in Segovia or Zamora.
July 9th, 2009 - 13:58
That is so nice of Him! That was SO SWEET.
How exciting!!! I hope you will continue your blog, so we can continue to keep track (and pray!) for you guys!
July 9th, 2009 - 19:04
I promise to keep you all updated here. We won’t know much for a while though.
July 9th, 2009 - 18:13
That’s such a sweet response by the little one.
May God lead the way for you and bless you for all your future ventures!
July 9th, 2009 - 20:01
How beautiful. Out of the mouths of babes and infants. . . be ye like a little child. . . I am blessed to read that!
July 11th, 2009 - 10:34
I know! It is so refreshing that God uses such little vessels.
July 10th, 2009 - 00:10
I’m blessed and will be watching and seeing all that God is doing in your lives and the lives of your children because of you obedience. l
blessings to you friends!
July 11th, 2009 - 10:35
I can’t wait to see what happens either, thanks for your encouragement
July 10th, 2009 - 16:28
We are excited that you are following your calling. Will you have to itenerate for financial assistance? We will keep this transition in our prayers.
July 11th, 2009 - 10:37
Thanks Coral! Yes we are starting all the process, we are going to take Bible courses, itenerate, and the whole deal. We are so excited, but really it could be a long time before we get there…God’s timing is perfect though, and on Him we wait (just trying to be patient ;P)
We covet your prayers, we can use them for sure, thank you so much!!