Dad and I fly to Ft. Lauderdale tonight and then to Quito, Ecuador on Friday. After having been on an extended short-term mission trip to Russia last summer, a week-stay seems less significant. But I don't want to have that mindset. God is not limited by time, nor even by other barriers such as language or culture. I am praying that the Lord would give me opportunity to testify of Christ, not simply in my service, but also in verbal witness. The time with Dad is also something I look forward to. Finding true fellow laborers with whom to serve the Lord together is a rare yet refreshing joy.
The needs of the Quechua Indians are both physical and spiritual. I hope to witness both being met this next week.
"Often all we think of is, having our need met; but how little a thing that is with God! It would cost Him nothing, we may say, to meet the need of a lifetime in a moment; and a lesser love than His would supply it at once, and get rid of the constant burden.
But that is not His way. To supply the need is a small thing; but to supply it in such a way as to make us feel in each seasonable supply the Father's heart never withdrawn from us, the Father's heart ever employed about us--that is what He means. 'Give us our daily bread': is it not much more than to ask, 'Give us now, that we may not have to come again?'"
-From NBTHH 6.14
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