Well, golly gosh me…it’s been forever from the last time I wrote an update. Busy is as busy does I guess. (I think I just made that saying up) anyway, here goes nothing. Beware, it just might become that.
This week has been fun, relaxing and surprisingly not all that crazy. First time for everything eh? I think this has been the first week I’ve had in over 2 months where I didn’t get some earth shattering piece of news. No bad news, no good news, nothing. Just plain normal week, thank God.
I sit here listening to some Chinese music still slightly in awe over what this country has done to me. How it’s changed me for both the good and the bad. Mostly good I think, but like any situation you do make mistakes. That in and of itself is a bad thing but when put together with God’s amazing love and faithfulness is a wondrous thing. The things he can teach us through our own weakness should confound our human reasoning. At least they do mine.
You see, these past few weeks have been some of those “bang Daniel over the head with a holy 2x4” weeks for God. The kind of weeks where I think he wants to see just how much I’ve really learned about giving up to him and letting him be in charge. So he tosses things at us and watches how they bounce. Or maybe, how we bounce. Either way, this has been one of those times. Without going into a lot of details I’ll just say that God has both taken some things from me and given some things to me these past few months that have left me totally incompetent in myself and relying on him for just the basic strength to keep on keeping on. That’s where he wants me I’m sure. I hate every second of that in my flesh, because I’m the kind of guy who likes to rely on himself for things. That’s not why I’m here and that’s not what I should be learning. So, as much as I don’t’ like it I know it’s a good thing that the Lord is teaching me these things.
So, as an encouragement to you I’ll just say this. No matter how frustrating things may get you can be sure that God knows what’s going on before you even get frustrated. He loves you and is caring for you more than anyone else could. He wants to bless you and be with you forever, and would never do anything to hurt you. He can only help. So trust him, ride out the wave, wait for the sunrise, it’s going to be alright.
With God it’s alright…
Alright.
Daniel
Ji Ji
