The Water's Edge

We have a lady in our church who is headed to the most unchristian nation on the Earth in a day or so. Because of where she is going we are just going to call her Ms. H. I thought I would tell you about the first time I ever met her.

About 4 maybe 5 years ago a friend of mine invited me to a lady's brunch to hear a speaker. I'm using the word friend loosely because at the time this was a lady that called me out of the blue to invite me. In fact after I received the invitation I called another friend to see what she thought I should wear. I can so remember that! She advised me to dress up, I dressed down. Why do we ask for advice and ignore it?

I followed my friend to the biggest house I had ever been in! The ladies were all dressed up and they had the real china out for us to eat on. Needless to say, I felt totally out of place. If I hadn't gotten blocked in I may have tried to slip out the door. I was thinking I am in the wrong place.

We sat down in the living room and Ms. H stood up and began to share about her recent trip. I believe it was one of her first trips. That part went over my head but what stuck deeply was that she was doing something and she was just a normal woman. She had such a passion and she wanted so much for us to have that same passion, Jesus Christ. Her passion shows itself through evangelism and teaching. But the passion is Jesus. I was at the right place because what I so desperately wanted to hear from somewhere was that God was still in the miracle business and He worked like that in normal people's life.

Everyone of us can have that same passion (Jesus) and I believe see the same Mighty hand of God in their lives. We may show it in a different way but it will touch people the same, and draw people to Jesus.

I didn't see Ms.H again for years. When we first came to NorthPointe I was excited to hear that they also went. It has been neat to see them and watch from a distance, while I would say we are friends we aren't "friends". Do you know what I mean?

But even from the distance I can tell you two things, that passion is still burning, maybe even more intently. The other thing is, obedience is the key. That is the one that stings me the most. Obedience is hard. But the only way we are ever going to see the miracles of God is through obedience.

Although I can think of a couple of people in the Bible that saw huge miracles through disobedience, Jonah, but I think I'll pass on that way!

I started out asking 'how does Ms. H's mission affect me?' It's a heart test, is my heart cold, warm or hot to the things of God? We 100% know that God cares about the people in these countries that are so closed so our reaction is a check-up tool.

If my heart is cold, then I listen to her and walk away, thinking as she shared someone told her, its not worth it.

If my heart is warm, I could hug her neck and say I will pray for you. I think a warm heart will even do that, pray for her.

But a heart that is hot for God will look at her and think I want to have a part of what God is doing. I think for everyone of us our part would be different because we all have different gifts, but the key is a desire to be a part of it!

Could be you give her a donation, could be you pray for her, could be you help take care of those who she is leaving here stateside, could be you ask God what He would have you do.

Then when she gets back and shares what happened, we can thank God for the opportunity to be a part of it!

If you would like to contact her send me an email to gowatersedge at gmail dot com and I'll pass it on to her.

Jenny