"Follow Me"

These are the words that Christ has given us. For Becky and I we are excited about planting our lives down here in the West Elm community. As we embark on this journey with Christ, we wonder what the Lord will do over the coming several decades. Yes, I did say decades. We have made this our home. What will God do here? I pray that He will get great glory for His name, not because we are great, but because of who He is. I appreciate what one preacher says: "There are no great men of God; only tiny, weak, yea even sinful men of a great and merciful God." It's humbling to be reminded that God has chosen to use us, many of us, because of our weaknesses.

For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

(1 Corinthians 1:26-31 ESV)

And I thank God for that reminder. This life I have, my family, living in these apartments--the doing of missions--it all rests on the sovereignty of a good and gracious God who will call people for Himself from out of the darkness into His marvelous light.