It’s that time again where we will be going to a place we
have now called “a glimpse of heaven”. I haven’t been to Joni and Friends (JAF)
Family Retreat in four years and I feel like a different person than when I went
in high school. JAF was always a place of fun and excitement, and I’m sure it
will again. Knowing the centrality of the Gospel has made me even more aware of
and concern for people’s souls, whether it’s the families’ or even the
volunteers’. And maybe I will need to learn much too as I’ve always been
humbled by the lives of these families affected by disabilities. I am not sure what
to think of JAF coming up this week. Is it a mission field or a retreat for
myself or both? But I know God is sovereign and He will work mightily
regardless. I’ve posted this quote before but I like it:
"One of my renaissance experiences was to get among kids who were on a different spiritual level than my own, and enjoy fellowship with them. I found a very subtle snare in so doing. I sought their fellowship in order that I might minister to them, 'be a help,' you know, to the 'weaker' ones. What a rebuke came when I sensed my real motive - that I might minister. Love hacks right at this, for she refused to parade herself. I learned to recognize no 'spiritual planes,' but simply to love, purely, in every group. Trying to 'be a help' even has a smell of good works in it, for it is not pure. Our motive is only to be - do nothing, know nothing, act nothing - just to be a sinful bit of flesh, born of a Father's love."
-Shadow of the Almighty
Maybe it’s because these families affected by disabilities are more in tune to reality, the state of who we are as desperate people before the universe’s Almighty God. I added this verse to the top of this blog as a reminder of what we are to do:
For we are powerless before this great multitude who are coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are on You.
2 Chronicles 20:12
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