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The Testimony of An Ordinary Missionary
(part 2)
I wondered, DO I EVEN LOVE GOD?
I think it’s easy to SAY we love God. But what does that mean? Jesus said to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind.”
I made a commitment that night to stop praying. Sort of. I stopped praying for my businesses. I stopped praying for my health. I stopped praying for safety. I traded all my personal prayers for one, four word prayer.
For an entire year I prayed, “God. I Love You.”
The following November, 2011 I found myself in Guatemala on my first missions trip. On one of the last days we were helping at a feeding center in Guatemala City.
I remember walking in the back door and seeing 200 kids packed into a very full cafeteria. They were waiting and getting settled into their seats. The church worship team started playing music and singing and the kids all stood up to sing with them.
These kids were poor poor. As in, “this might be the only meal they eat today, poor.”
I stood at the back of the room, and watched them raise their hands and worship our mighty God. They LOVED Him. You could see it. You could feel it. And it was on that day, on December 1st 2011, watching those kids, that I realized, I loved God too.
“I don’t want you on Sundays. I don’t want you when you have time. I want ALL of you. Follow me.”
Seven months later my family and I had sold our house, our two successful businesses and landed in Guatemala City to serve our one true Love with our whole lives.
