I posted about Living Love and how hard it is and how it requires great sacrifice last week. We must count the cost! Here is a post from my friend along the same lines. You will be blessed in reading it. It does remind me of those stories you read in those books about missionaries. Yet those are not stories of the past, they are stories for us here and now as God writes our stories.
I am inspired by her story. I am inspired by the ache that has grown in her heart over these few years to take a bigger action, a bigger task all for the sake of His glory. It is amazing faith in action. Love walking around. The hands and feet of Christ. His words, His mercy, His hope. It pours forth like a faucet from this family and I praise God who allows me to be in friendship with them. It takes iron to sharpen iron.
I know I have read books like Radical by Platt, 7 by Hatmaker, and Anything by Allen. They so inspire me but these people are authors that I do not know. They are not really real to me because I have no connection to them by seeing their real lives in action. They seem to be what they write but it is a greater thing to actually walk alongside and experience this kind of life lived out to the full in person. That is what a blessing it is walking alongside Kara and her family. Iron does sharpen iron. She is a tool He uses to continually sharpen me. And though painful at times I am so thankful and more like Jesus through it.
Our time here is so temporary! Let's use our time wisely for what really counts. Living like Jesus.
Read her current story, you will be blessed. Go to this link.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
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Again, so blessed by your words. Thank you.
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