Half is the number of totes that arrived today at Toncontin Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Fourteen entered the check stand in Indianapolis and only seven arrived causing a delay in our departure to Comayagua, but we had cool heads and big hearts and I was proud of everyone who were simply like Gumby…very bendable.
Half is also the amount of sleep most of the team received last night as the majority had to leave around 1:00am in order to get to the airport by 4:15am CST.
As we begin this journey we realize that throughout even the most difficult of beginnings that God is the leader of this team and through him all things are possible. Though we have half of the supplies as of now, all of what we need for the first half of the week is here and we do not need the rest until the second half of the week. (Pray fervently that it all arrives!)
In my reading tonight in Colossians 1:11-14, I read the following:
11 May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. 13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
That is my prayer for this team this week, that we are strengthened from our weariness with the power that only comes from God, I pray for all endurance and patience for both the team but especially for myself as I feel the pressure of being half here since my wife is at home healing still. I pray that even through the hardships that we will certInly face this week, that it will be a catalyst to drive us to our knees in thanksgiving to God the Father for all he has done and is continuing to do in our lives. I am now calling on the truth of His word in that he has delivered us from the domain of darkness and that he will continue to protect us this week from that darkness as well. And lastly, I pray that as we realize our own redemption, our forgiveness from sin, may we also have the desire this week to see others share in that same redemption through both boldness in speaking and serving others and through the preaching of God’s Word.
We are blessed to have such a diverse team, but even more blessed to have so many others that serve through Open Eyes Ministries that make it so easy to come and to work on a foreign mission field.
Unfortunately, as I lay here at the end of the first day and think about spending half of our day in travel, I can only imagine how many “Christians” are only willing to give half of there hearts to Jesus when he has asked for our whole heart. Lord, may we ever be changed to a state of discipleship where half is never good enough and may it begin this week.
