I just wanted to put up a really quick first post tonight. It won't be long, as I've already spent most of the afternoon and evening putting together my first monthly update. Nevertheless, I've been thinking a lot today about how loved and blessed I am and how little I deserve it. In fact, I deserve none of it. God is good. He is so good! Why do I get to be here in a city that I love, with new friends I love and who love me, with more than enough money to live comfortably, getting to learn and speak a language I love, getting to serve a people group I love? And even as I sit here thinking about how blessed I am by God, I begin to miss the point. It's not about me receiving gifts from Him. It's not about me at all. It's about Him! Jesus, my savior, who died for me, an object of mercy who should have known wrath. Indeed, He is so good! Hallelujah!
One final note for my friend Josiah: your story about how God sometimes delights to bless us in strange ways, like when you saw lots of yellow butterflies that one day, came into my mind this morning. Seriously, not ten seconds after it did, some of the biggest and most brilliantly sunshine-yellow butterflies I'd ever seen in my life fluttered by the window. I really missed you then. But then I remembered how much God must love us, and I felt better. Love you bro.
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