Most who know me know that I am a night owl and dread mornings, but I find that when I am away from home I am still a night owl, but mornings are actually really easy. I was awake about an hour before my alarm this morning, the sun was shining and it is already hot and muggy, but I am looking forward to the day and the new challenges it will bring.
I was thankful to read the blogs from Cori Beth and Joey since pastor and I are not with the rest of the team it helps to keep up with what they are involved in. This morning we are preaching at the camp and then again tonight. Pray that hearts will be broken for the gospel as this morning at breakfast we observed many in the streets of Baia Mare who were wandering the streets in need of salvation. This is why I am up early, because their is an urgency here for the gospel, but there is also an urgency back home in the states, probably even more so because we have cleverly disguised Christianity with religion and many are just as lost as those we witnessed this morning on the street, perhaps more so.
It is my prayer that we do not lose sight of this when we leave here. It is so easy to find the lost in a culture dominated by years of communism and Greek Orthodoxy, but may the Lord grant us the wisdom to seek out the religious in the states who are hiding amongst us with just as much a false sense of salvation as those who blatantly oppose the gospel. May we be ever vigilant in our efforts to see Jesus’ name made famous in both the US and Romania, but also in the rest of the world. (Acts 1:8)
