For the glory of His Father.

The day we packed our car and moved to Mozambique, I realized that the calling of Jesus came with a cost. It is a call that moved us from our zone of comfort. It meant sacrificing, friendships, family, culture, time and our privacy. Suddenly we shared our home with children, staff and volunteers that came and serve with us. We had to do things that were not comfortable, our family were exposed to everyone that lived with us. Any time of the day and night people had access to Rika and I, our family meals are almost always interrupted. Weekends are the same as the rest of the week, we are busy 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 

Jesus brings abandoned, hurt children to our homes to bring love and healing to them. He asks of us, not to do this when it is comfortable for us to do it. He asks us our lives, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. He doesn't want us to serve Him on our terms. He calls us to leave everything behind and to follow Him. Jesus do not want to fit in our schedule, when it is comfortable for us to serve Him. He want to turn our life up side down, He wants to be first in our lives, He wants us to serve Him with everything we have to give. Jesus transforms our passion for Him into compassion for the homeless, the fatherless, the people in jail, the widow and the lost. Jesus have a mission and we are part of His mission. As He calls us to join Him in His mission are we willing to leave everything behind and follow Him regardless of the cost. The mission of Jesus is to see His Father glorified to the ends of the earth. Let's live our lives for the glory of God, The Father and let us not take any of the glory for us. It is time for the church to lay down our lives and to take God's glory to the end of the world, with out touching His glory.