I know I continue to harp on this same subject of God's restoration, but I can't seem to get away from it. God is constantly bringing it to my thoughts. Restoration. God asks Abraham to kill Isaac for Him, Abraham, without getting into a theological discussion about it, just says yes and sharpens his knife. The very next day, early; he didn't even procrastinate, he gets up, gets his son up, and starts trudging toward that mountain, lines of stress cutting through his gnarled face. We all know how the story goes. He gets to the mountain, raises the knife, and God stops him at the last moment and restores his son to him.
This is a theme all throughout the Bible. Job, David, Abraham, Noah, the planet Earth. Over and over again people lose everything either because God asked them to leave it, or because they made a mistake and lost it. But God, so wonderful and merciful as He is, always restores it to them and more if they continue walking with Him.
A couple of days ago I was asked by the leadership team here at YWAM Chiriqui to rejoin my place on the team. It was an intense, and long meeting that lasted close to four hours. I won't go into all the details, but in the end I did feel that overwhelming sense of God's grace yet again.
When I came back here, I didn't expect anything really. As I said in other posts, I didn't think we would have much if any financial support. I didn't think we would have a house nearly as perfect for us as the one we lived in before. I didn't think we would have a vehicle. Yet God gave us all of those things back, plus a better vehicle and the exact same house as before!
Even with that, I didn't expect to be asked back on the leadership team, at least not for quite a while. Not because there were any hard feelings between myself and the leaders, but simply because I had been gone for a while and it takes time to readjust to changes on the base, new staff, etc....
However God had other plans. He put it in the hearts of the other leaders to ask me back on the team, and with that everything I left behind when I went to Texas has been totally restored. On top of that I now have under my belt one of the greatest experiences of my life, which was working with Faith Fellowship. I grew so much, and learned more than I can express from the leaders there, Pastor Luke, the teenagers, and the great opportunities they all gave me.
Above all I thank Jesus for restoring everything back to me, and even more. He is so worthy and awesome. As we are established here in Panama, and planning for the School of Frontier Mission and other big projects God is giving us, life only gets more and more exciting!
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