We had some great help today from a friend of Terrell's at work. Gabe had half day of school so between Terrell, Gabe and Mike, a lot was accomplished. We are making great strides to be out by tomorrow. We have until Sunday at 4pm but we'd really like to see it happen by tomorrow night. Another great friend loaned us his trailer to use...thank you Bob! TG took my girls to class today. YAH! Lots of people coming together to make this happen. Through it all I still haven't let it sink in that in oh...two weeks, I'll no longer live in California. Weird thought as of now. I believe it will good. I read a devotion this morning by Oswald Chambers in My Utmost for His Highest. I thought I'd share it with you tonight as a word of encouragement.
"My kingdom is not of this world." John 18:36
The great enemy to the Lord Jesus Christ in the present day is the conception of practical work that has not come from the New Testament, but from the Systems of the world in which endless energy and activities are insisted upon, but no private life with God. The emphasis is put on the wrong thing. Jesus said, "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation, for lo the kingdom of God is within you," a hidden, obscure thing. An active Christian worker too often lives in the shop window. It is the innermost of the innermost that reveals the power of the life.
We have to get rid of the plague of the spirit of the religious age in which we live. In Our Lord's life there was none of the press and rush of tremendous activity that we regard so highly, and the disciple is to be as His Master. The central thing about the kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship to Himself, not public usefulness to men.
It is not its practical activities that are the strength of this Bible Training College, its whole strength lies in the fact that here you are put into soak before God. You have no idea of where God is going to engineer your circumstances, no knowledge of what strain is going to be put on you either at home or abroad, and if you waste your time in over-active energies instead of getting into soak on the great fundamental truths of God's Redemption, you will snap when the strain comes; but if this time of soaking before God is being spent in getting rooted and grounded in God on the unpractical line, you will remain true to Him what ever happens.
I read this today and realized that the quiet we will have in Colorado will be good. Time to soak before God. I can easily be involved in "over-active energies". I'm looking forward to discovering more of God.
Thanks for Listening,
Tuna Jones
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