Bog Živi

We had a devotional at work today and the topic was about bearing testimony.  It reminded me of when I was a new missionary in Croatia that could barely communicate anything to anyone.  We were on a light rail car that was packed with people and I wanted to talk to them and teach them about the gospel but I didn’t know what to do.  The windows were all fogged up so I reached over and wrote “Bog živi” (God lives) on the window.  My companion just laughed at me.  I thought I was being quite clever.  The car looked like this...

 

It is interesting to see how God works in people’s lives.  I am currently reading a book called, “Kisses from Katie” about a Christian gal from Tennessee who wanted to do a service mission at an orphanage in Uganda.  This was on her Christmas break, her senior year of high school.  She was invited back to teach kindergarten after high school and she did it.  In the end she adopted 13 kids by the age of 22.  It has been interesting to see how God has worked in her life to bring her to that point.  It leaves me wishing that I could see a clear purpose to my life right now but I am sure he has something up his sleeve.  I just need to wait and pray for his purposes to be revealed to me. 

The only thing I can see that God has for me in my life right now is that I think he wants me to go to Hawaii.  That is nothing like adopting 13 kids in Uganda.  Kinda makes me feel like a selfish jerk after reading about Katie but I just happened to come into some extra money and then this great opportunity to go to Hawaii just fell into my lap, so I think it is God.  I don’t know, am I crazy?  I just know that God loves me and he wants me to be happy, just like he loves all of us and wants us all to be.  Sometimes we aren’t happy and we have hard lessons to learn but the other times I am pretty sure he wants us to be happy.