This week I got to go to a Korean festival. There is a big Korean population here in Ghana in a place called Tema. A lot of these families are missionaries. They would putting on a fundraiser for their church. It was a lot of fun and I got to eat a lot of good korean food. I had a great opportunity to eat lots of good food. I had some Korean noodles which are amazing, they were called Chap Chae,I think bung-a bbang was these things that look like fish and inside they have beans and something else but they taste like chocolate, and hoddok is a cinnamon pancake thing, it was more of a dessert. I got to hang out with some amazing teachers and friends. So all of these foods I split with the new PE teacher, Josiah, and at one point he told me I wasn't allowed to talk any more till I finished the rest of the fish thing because he wouldn't start eating the pancake things until I was done. So for all of you who know me I didn't stop talking I just quickly finished so that we could eat the pancake things. It was a lot of fun and I hung out with people that I hadn't really hung out with yet.
So in Bible study this year we have been looking at the life of David in I Samuel. This week a couple things just hit me.
1. GOd has a will for me but so does Satan. (2 Tim. 2:26, And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. Satan tries with all his might to make us stray and to deceive us. Make us doubt our faith and make us doubt of who we are in Christ. He attacks us and we know he will just like David knew he wrote it in Psalm 27:2. That is why 2 Tim. 1:12 is so important. It says For he which cause I also suffer these things nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I KNOW whom I have BELIEVED and am PERSUADED that he is ABLE to KEEP that which I have COMMITTED unto Him against that day.
2. There are two types of faith. Faith that we base our faith on what God is doing and one where we base our faith on who He is. So many times especially in Ghana I have faith on what He is doing and as soon as something happens where I don't necessarily see Him working I tend to get down on myself and look at things more critically. WHere as if I have faith in who He is I would really be looking at WHat he has done in the past and all of His promises that he has kept and know He is a faithful, loving, all consuming God.
3. GOd is bigger than our feelings. He is bigger than our heart. Beth Moore talked about how we have the breastplate of righteousness to protect our hearts when our feelings are in conflict with our callings. SHe talked about how we can't just listen to our hearts because our hearts will deceive us. I John 3:20, I John 4:4. verse 20"For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. vs 4 Ye are of God little children and have overcome them because greater is he that is in you than he that is of the world." Praise the Lord that We have a savior who is greater than our heart.
It is coming to be time again where I have to decide what I am going to be doing next year.I have a couple of choices. I can stay in Ghana and teach third grade, I can stay in Ghana and switch grades, I can transfer to a different NICs school, or I can come home. I think coming home is not really going to be an option my passion is to be overseas. I am just really praying about where God would have me. I have been thinking about maybe transferring to Korea or just switching to a different grade here at AIS. Just pray for this decision. I always dread this decision it is so hard for me. Part of it is because all I have known for the last two years has been AIS its scary thinking about leaving it. However, I can't let fear or being comfortable keep me here and not really listening to what God is saying to me. I ask that you pray for discernment.
So I guess I should explain why I entitled my blog a little bit of chaos in a world of peace. In the last couple of weeks my whole world has been turned upside down with a million different things and just adjusting to life back in Ghana and not getting to talk to some people as often as I did at home and different things and it has just been chaotic but I have peace with it all. I have peace because I know God gives peace to those who trust in Him and He has every single thing that has happened in the last couple of weeks from Amanda's wedding to coming back to Ghana to some other things He already had and has them worked work out and so with chaos all around I can have peace. I can have faith that God will come through and I can have joy even in the hard times because I know I have a faithful God.
God is good and I am so thankful that i have this opportunity to be in Ghana for a third year. My class is amazing and they really put a smile on my face every time I see them. okay so at Care group tonight Chris was talking from Hebrews and he referenced a passage in TItus and I really like it and it really just kind of stood out to me so i thought I would close with this.
Titus 3:4-8
" But after that the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared. Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy ghost: which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior that being justified by his grace we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. This is a faithful saying, and that things i will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works these things are good and profitable unto men. "
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