We
have now been in Diouloulou for a little over two weeks. I have learned a
surprisingly many things about the people and culture, though I have learned
much more about God and His personality through His Word.
Each time I read a
passage in Scripture I am reminded that we need to live by faith alone; not
just faith but “Selfless Faith.” In
the Oxford Dictionary the definition for selfless is: “Concerned more with the
needs and wishes of others (in this case with God and His people) than with
one’s own needs and wishes.” So selfless faith means complete trust and faith
in God and His wishes without expecting or even wanting anything other than
God’s will to be done and all the glory to go to Him. That is all we should
need or even want: God’s plan to be fulfilled and all the glory to go to Him. We
don’t deserve to have or do anything other than that.
But through God’s love
and grace He gives us a personal undeserved relationship with Him. We can talk
to Him through prayer and He talks to us through the Bible. There is nothing
better than to have a personal relationship with the universe’s creator “God.”
He adopts us into His family through Jesus Christ and treats us as children.
But again we cannot settle for just a personal relationship, we have brothers
and sisters, adopted just like us, in God’s family and we have the
responsibility to acknowledge and work along side them (after all we live for
the same purpose). God’s family is the biggest, strongest, most powerful family
in the universe. Your brother is Jesus Christ “God in flesh” who lived, died
and rose again. Your Father is not only the "one and only God," He just happens
to be the all powerful and all loving creator of the universe, the Alpha and
Omega, the beginning and the end (I could go on for eternity but I won’t do
that right now so don’t get freaked out).
I am
part of that family and I hope that you are too! Follow Jesus’ example, join
His family and become a real child of God through Selfless Faith. It’s the only
way!
