On Tuesday night we had a great time of prayer and sharing together at Renacer, my church, and I felt greatly encouraged about what this life is all about.
The pastor spoke about a short encouragement that Paul gave to Timothy in 2 Tim 1: 13-14. It says this: "Hold to the standard of sound teaching that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. Guard the good treasure entrusted to you, with the help of the Holy Spirit living in us."
Just a funky side note: It is raining hard outside and it is the middle of the summer here. How strange! This is normally the hottest time of the year, and I am sitting here in a long-sleeved black shirt and I am not hot. Super strange. Ok... sorry for the distraction from the point, but it just started raining like that.
I was saying... How encouraging his words were about faith and love. Everything that we do in an ideal world should be based from faith and love. It was a good reminder that when the hard times come, we need only to hang on tightly to our love and what we believe and know to be true. It is like when two young people fall in love. The moment of falling in love may fade, but their trust in each other maintains a firm bond in their relationship. They are continually stimulating the fire of their love as they grow in their friendship and commitment to each other. The walk with Christ is very similar to this.
I want to be so full of Christ and so confident of him that I couldn't waver in the difficult moments.
Sometimes the translation in Spanish sounds cooler than the English translation. For example. Instead of sound doctrine, it translates healthy doctrine. The point is that your foundation needs to stay firm.
God has been doing great things here. We began our children's ministry thing at Renacer and we were exctatic. The biggest thing I need to work on right now is studying forms of Subjunctive, present participle, past perfect versus imperfect.
We have a huge test the first week of April which is basically an interview. It is so easy to get distracted doing all sorts of different ministry things, but right now, I need to really focus on my Foneticas, Gramatica, and Conversacion classes.
God is so good. I will write to you all soon. Have a GReAT Easter and miss ya!
