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Friday, January 16th, 2004
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11:55a - Missionaries!
Oh, I have just stumbled upon the most wonderful website! It's called Wholesomewords.org and it's full of missionary stories--the great ones, like Hudson Taylor, Johnathan Goforth, Adoniram Judson! AND it has beautiful old poetry written by men and women of great faith. :) I'm very happy to have discovered this site. To hear these real-life stories of incredible missionaries always stirs my heart... they were just ordinary people! And they had weaknesses and flaws, just like me, but they were available.
You know when Isaiah saw the Lord high and lifted up, and then a voice saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" I love how God sort of acted like Isaiah wasn't there. He didn't ask, "Isaiah, will you go?" He offers us such an incredible privilege to take part in His work here on earth. He allows us to feel the power and purpose of God Himself, impacting eternity through us, as vessels--chanels of His amazing grace.
He's not looking for the ones with talent, He's looking for the ones who are willing. The ones that have given up trying to be "spiritual" and just decide to follow God, even if the rest of the world--Christianity too--snickers at them for not fitting into their concept of what is spiritual. Those are the ones. And the world is not worthy of them.
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For this God is our God for ever and ever:
He will be our guide even unto death.
Psalm 48:14
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11:58a - The Question
PLEASE READ THIS POST
Hello, everyone. I am finally writing the entry that I have been tempted to write for weeks now. Most of you know that I've been double-posting in LiveJournal for a while, and I have made many new friends there that I encourage you all to meet--they are wonderful people and I have been very, very blessed to get to know them.
I've been discouraged lately though... the fountain of fellowship on Blurty appears to have dried up for me. Does anyone still care what I write here? I don't want to lose the friendships I've gained, but it's getting increasingly hard to make myself post entries that no one responds to. It's totally fine if you've stopped reading; I know how hard it is to keep up with dozen's of peoples' lives. :) I'm going to stop my double-posting and focus on LJ from now on if the response to this entry goes (for the most part) unnoticed. I've prayed about it and just don't want to continue talking to the wall here anymore. :(
Talk to me, please--
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