"Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory."- 1st Peter 1:8
My heart is overflowing with this passage today. Sometimes we can feel so distant from God. Unlike the apostles/disciples, we never got to see our Lord's face. I didn't hear his words with my own ears or wash his feet with my own tears and yet... I love him. He never physically met me at a well and said "Go and sin no more" and yet I believe in him and I believe in his saving grace. It truly is an inexpressible joy.
South Africa has me feeling this way too. I keep looking into what life will be like down there, who the people are, and the challenges we'll face. Yet, despite my late night ponderings of "you're crazy, Amber." I'm in love with these people. I haven't met many of them but I love them and what makes it more exciting is to hear that the feeling appears to be mutual. I keep getting trickles of information fed to me about how others there are excited at the prospect of us coming and staying. Meeting after meeting is being set up and arranged, whether that be with our own church or with others that are interested in helping us get there. To feel Christ's love poured out on us by his people... by my Godly family is too beautiful for words.
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