Late Night Musing

Every Monday Rachelle and I pitch in and make dinner for the Ra's, whoever is interested. We've done Chicken Spaghetti, Salad with Chicken in it, and tonight we did BBQ (burgers, hot dogs, and chicken.) The reason we do this is to serve the Ra's to give them a picture of Jesus and God as giving and generous. We don't know how they see it, but that is our goal and what I prayed for tonight before we ate. In that same vain, something really remarkable happened tonight. As we were eating Jian, my Chinese friend and staff member, came up to me and started telling me about what he had been reading in the bible about the life of Jesus. I think he is reading Matthew, and he said that he has been reading it in his spare time. He told me he read from Jesus being born to Jesus dying and came tonight with questions about why Jesus was killed. Jian was confused as to why they would kill Jesus because He had been doing so many good things (healing people, feeding thousands with not much food, curing leprosy) And for me it was hard to explain in a way Jian would understand that Jesus died because that was the plan of God, and it was the reason Jesus came to the earth, to be a sacrifice for the sins, the bad things that people do against God. And that reality really blows my mind as I think about it, and really doesn't make sense in an awe-struck kind of way. I believe it and I have seen the power of the Cross and the power of the Resurrection, but it still puts me in a place of reverent fear. I hope that I will be able to talk with jian about this more and more and i hope and pray that he will put his hope and trust and faith in Jesus and become a washed in the blood follower of the King of the Universe!!

God is Glorious,

Joshua