“God promises us many things, but He doesn’t promise us tomorrow.”

Romans 12:9-12, “Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another; not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, fervent in prayer.”

The Lord has been teaching me a lot about seeking Him now, because we aren’t promised tomorrow. Just like we evangelize to people all the time, “Today is the day of salvation, get right with the Lord now”, it’s the same for us too. Isaiah 32:17- God wants us to have a right relationship with Him and a right relationship with others, but we can’t have one without the other. When our relationship with God is right, our relationships with others will be right. And that will give us a life of peace, quietness, and assurance.

He is teaching me more and more about contentment and my complaining heart. These people have nothing and yet, you look at the faces of these kids and they are so happy. They don’t know they are lacking everything convenient, and everything unnecessary. The Lord gives them what they need for the day. He truly provides them with manna. I’m realizing I’m the one who has nothing, because I have everything. I don’t have to trust in the Lord for anything really, most of the time, because everything I want and need is pretty much at my fingertips. But for the people here, it’s not. Their dependency must be on something/ someone greater than themselves, and hopefully it’s in the Lord. They are content with nothing, and I am discontent with everything.

He is also teaching me to remember that He is a God of restoration, and the things that we can’t fix He can.

Psalm 136 and Psalm 33- God is great and He does wonderful things!

This weekend was so much fun! I’m so excited about the awesome ministry opportunities that are to come, especially this next month. The Lord is gonna do some amazing things, but I’m also anticipating it being rather difficult because of that. Satan will be working over time.

On Saturday we had sports day with the kids. We took them to a sports field to play basketball and football (soccer). They are some rowdy boys! As hard as I tried to get in there and play with them I was kind of scared for my life haha. After an hour or so of playing, we sat them down, did a skit for them on the story of Hannah, fed them, and off we went to one of the greatest nights of my life….Love Kampala Festival. It was probably the biggest festival Uganda’s ever seen, so I’m not gonna lie, I was a little nervous someone was gonna start dropping bombs, but Praise the Lord everything went really smooth! Thank you if you were praying. It reminded me a lot of the outreach we did last semester only on a much bigger scale. It was sort of like being at a Uganda Hillsong concert. They had motocross, a huge kids area with blow up castles and face painting, lots of food, a message, and lots of music. Papa San is this pretty big artist from Jamaica, who sings reggae music, and everyone loves him here, so when he got up to play everyone went crazy! I hadn’t danced so much in such a long time! Everyone here loves to dance, so it was so much fun! A lot of times even when the kids don’t have food, they’re content if they’re dancing.

The worship was really good too! As I listened, the words to Hosanna really tugged at my heart:

Heal my heart and make it clean

Open up my eyes to the things unseen

Show me how to love like You have loved me

Break my heart for what breaks Yours

Everything I am for Your Kingdoms cause

As I walk from earth into eternity

Let that be our prayer!!!

We had so much fun that Sunday after church we went back for the rest of the day. A lot of the kids came back too, which was awesome. It was pretty much the exact same thing again, but we had just as much fun as if we hadn’t been there the night before. My feet ached and my legs hurt, but it was all worth it!