May 10

It seems my life is filled with empty hotel rooms. I am in Oklahoma getting ready to do another missions service. The hotels are gruesome no matter how nice they are are decorated. They just become rooms with a television after a while. As I told one young man who wanted to know how to get a job doing what I do, “the weather channel looks the same in every city!”It is not the travel that pushes me out the door of my home each week. It is the opportunity to challenge another congregation how they can change their world through missions giving. It is the chance that a young person will snatch the dream of a commitment to commit to carry the Gospel somewhere around the world. It is the opportunity that what we do will give a drink of water to a thirsty soul or a slice of bread to a hungry child.  I don’t know how long I will be able to do what I do but as long as I can go and people will ask me to come I will pack my bag. My heart burns with a message to challenge others to see what Christ saw and He felt when He saw the multitude. He said to those around Him, “Who will feed these?”  This week a mission group I met with who provides discipleship literature around the world had a question asked of them. It was by a new convert in a far away country who asked after accepting Christ, “What I do now?” My responsibility is to help others answer the same question, “What will I do now?” about those who ask, “What I do now?”