Did you know that God loves you? I'm not talking about knowing it in your head. Of course everyone knows the cliche "God loves you". But does your heart know that He loves you so much? We overuse and damage the word love in the American language way too much: "I love kittens! I love my sister! I love sushi! Jesus loves me!" Wait what? How can the word you use to describe how you feel about food be the same word you use to describe how you feel about a sibling or husband? Or how Jesus feels about you? That seems a little diminishing don't you think? This week we learned about evangelism and why we evangelize. God loves us so much that he wants everyone to spend forever with Him! But His love is perfect! Perfect, genuine love requires a choice. He doesn't make us love Him because that wouldn't be true love! Would you love someone if he or she made you love them? It would be possible, but it wouldn't be perfect love. I know that my defiant nature would take a lot of arm-twisting to comply with a forced love. Which is why we get to choose whether or not we want to be in a perfect-love relationship with Jesus! He could snap His fingers and we could all be saved! That would cheapen the love and wouldn't mean as much. Maybe this is old news to some of you, but it really hit me in the face this week! This is probably 10 minutes of information in one 3 hour lecture. We have 4 lectures in a week. Talk about God doing some serious reconstruction. Welcome to the life of a YWAMer!
I love it here! I've been learning so much and the weeks are strangely flying by. We are still trying to figure out the logistics of the outreach phase, but we know where we're going! The first 2 weeks will be spent in Tasmania, which is the little island below Australia. Weird, right? I didn't even know there was an island down there! I feel like it would fall off since it's basically on the bottom of the world :) I still don't have all my funds for the outreach phase so if you feel led to contribute please email me or send me a facebook message! shell5484@yahoo.com
And yes, I will try to update more than once a month :) Hope you all have a good week! Love you all :)
