Are You Ready?

Am I ready?...

This is the question many people have asked me today..."Are you ready?"

In terms of packing...I will be in about an hour. In terms of trusting my team...yes. In terms of working in a culture much different from my own...I think so. In terms of caring for people who have suffered a devastating loss, on top of years of ingrained poverty...no way. I am not ready for the smell of death still lingering in the air...the sad eyes of dozens of faces who have lost loved ones...the cries of desperation from children who have all but lost hope. I am not ready...and I'm ok with that...I don't want to be ready. I don't want to be all pumped up that we are coming to the rescue. In Africa, in Ecuador, in Dominican...and in America...If i learned on thing it is this. I am highly inadequate to deal with the problems of this world. And I have also learned this...My God is way bigger than all of those problems and all of my inadequacies. I have a Savior that loves greater than I ever could, has suffered more than I ever will, and understands better than I ever have. And that Savior has given his Spirit to do all these things and more. Pray for His Spirit to go ahead of us, to be with us...and to empower us to do what we can not on our own.