NTM

I read a comment on another missionary’s blog that really encouraged me:

While we desperately need your prayers for health (and please don’t stop), we are also well aware of the fact that we did not come to Papua New Guinea just “to be healthy”.  If anything, we would gladly exchange our health and comfort for the opportunity of a unreached people group to hear the Good News.

~Wayne and Gail Chen~

I really appreciate the Chen’s attitudes about reaching people.  Again, health isn’t unimportant, but it is still a circumstance in our lives.  I realize that in my own life I sometimes get my focus onto my circumstances and off of the Lord.  I desperately want to be a man who walk’s with God and stays focused on him not just day by day, but moment by moment.   Just because I say that, doesn’t mean that that is who I am.  At times I do get bogged down and stressed and overwhelmed with circumstances, and within that, experience hopelessness and pressure.

Life is hard, and hard things happen. –> Will I be able to walk with God through those things?
Even a hard life spent walking with God, focused on Him, is a wonderful life!
A hard life spent focuses on self and circumstances is certainly a life of misery and torment.

I want to be God focused… not for someday way off in the future, but I want to BE a man who is focused on God moment by moment.