Why Should I Go To India

I've been reading a book entitled "The Heavenly Man" by Brother Yun.  He is a Chinese House Church pastor.  Speaking about a time when he was asking God for a Bible he said this, "I went home, and every morning and afternoon I ate and drank nothing.  Every evening I ate just one small bowl of steamed rice.  I cried like a hungry child to his heavenly Father, wanting to be filled with his Word.  For the next one hundred days I prayed for a Bible, until I could bear it no more.  My parents were sure I was losing my mind." (pg. 28)  Can you even imagine what it would be like to hunger to know God like that and not be able to even read the Bible.  I can't imagine that.  I expect going to India will change how I hunger and thirst for righteousness and how, as Tozer might say, I follow hard after God.  How are doing in following hard after God?

One Small Step

Got my visa from the Indian consulate!  That is the first step along the way.

I've been doing my devotions in Matthew lately.  I'm struck by so many things from Matthew's gospel.  Have you ever wrestled with Matt 4:18-22?  Jesus is walking by the sea of Galilee.  He calls to Simon and Andrew and says, "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men."  Verse 20 says, "And they immediately left the nets, and followed Him."  Would you immediately leave all that you know and follow Jesus if He called you?  He has called you to follow Him.  He has called each of us.  I must confess that I have not gotten to the place where Simon and Andrew are at.  I want to though.

Following Through on a Commitment

Just twenty months into my one year commitment to read through the Bible and I finally made it.  I'm sorry it took me this long but I am glad to have finished this endeavor.  Does one ever really finish reading the Bible?  I know this, you never stop learning about God and never stop being conformed to His image if you are a Christ follower.  I just finished reading Proverbs and was reminded again of how unlike Him I can be at times.  I am hoping that you will make a commitment to pray for me as I prepare and go on this trip.  I hope to get a glimpse of God and in some small way be made more like Him as I head to India.