back to the basics

I think sometimes we forget what it's all about. you know, we get caught up in the money and the clothes and shots and everything else that goes into a mission trip, but what is it all about?

it's not about me at all.

it's about the kids that get to go to camp. it's about the kids getting breakfast, lunch and a snack every day. it's about the new shoes that get put on their feet for the first time in years. it's about the jackets they got last year to keep them warm through the cold nights and the backpacks they will get this year that has their very own Bible in it.

It's about the kids learning that somebody loves them. somebody cares about them so much that their cups have overflown.

It's about the smiles on their faces when they find out that the Lord is their shepherd. That He will never NEVER leave them. It's the joy in their eyes when we give them a chance to forget about their world of pain and hurt and just get to play and be kids again.


James 1:27 says "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."



Gosh. to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. talk about hard. the world pollutes us every single day. the world is telling me right now that I'm running out of time to get my money in. time? really? do you think God really runs on our time? days, hours, minutes... none of that means anything to Him. We're talking about a God that created the ENTIRE UNIVERSE in 6 days. If that doesn't blow your mind then i don't know what will.

maybe this money won't come in MY time and in my plan, but i don't want it to. God's plan and God's timing is perfect and I will wait on the Lord and I will worship while I wait.