I hope you have
had a wonderful Christmas season and that 2013 is filled with hope for what God
will do in and through you this year. We have had a wonderful few weeks of
relative rest over Christmas and are now preparing for the many changes we
anticipate coming our way in 2013.
-The spring
will be filled with continued travel and support raising (Jan.-March in NC and
SC and April in CT and ME).
-If we have
enough financial support we will move to the Netherlands
As I think about the massive changes ahead for 2013,
particularly the uncertainty and complication of support raising and an
international move, I have been reflecting anew on what it means to live a life
of faith—a life completely and unreservedly dependent upon God to such an
extent that if God doesn't provide there is no good back-up plan. Abraham would
have been in this situation when God first called him to leave his homeland and
travel to an unknown destination.
As I consider how Jenny and
I are in this situation (along with other missionaries) I have realized that
all Christians are really in the same situation. Nothing is certain in life, as
they say, except death and taxes. Every Christian shares the same situation.
Our jobs aren't certain, our health isn't certain, our safety isn't certain. So
little in life is certain. As Christians however, we know an incredible truth—God
as revealed in and through Jesus is certain. God’s purposes and plans are
certain. This has forced me, more than ever before, to put away the false façade
of certainty (that never really exists for anyone anyway) and look more and
more to the one true certainty in the universe—God. May you find increased
certainty and security in the one true and only source of both in 2013!
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