"Moonless Trust"

So I read this in my devotion the other day and wanted to share. Sorry Amie this probably isn't want you wanted ...but here it goes...

"Some of you are perhaps feeling that you are voyaging just now on a moonless sea. Uncertainty surrounds you. There seems to be no signs to follow. Perhaps you feel about to engulfed by loneliness. There is no one to whom you can speak of your need. Amy Carmichael wrote of such a feeling when, as a missionary of twenty- six, she had to leave Japan because of poor health, then travel to China for recuperation, but then realized God was telling her to go to Ceylon. ...I have on my desk her original hanndwritten letter of August 25th, 1894, as she was en route to Colombo. ' All along, let us remember, we are not asked to understand, but simply obey...On July, 28 Saturday I sailed. We had to come on board on Friday night, and just as the tender (small boat) where were the dear friends who had come to say goodbye was moving off, and the chill of loneliness shivered through me, like a warm love-clasp came the long-loved lines - 'And only Heaven is better than to walk WITH CHRIST AT MIDNIGHT, OVER MOON-LESS SEAS.' I couldn't feel frightened then. Priase Him for the moonless seas - all the opportunity for proving Him to be indeed the El Shaddai,' the God who is Enough.' "

Keep a Quiet Heart
By Elizabeth Elliot


Ohhh Jesus show me that you are sufficient for me.

Hidden In You

"He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, WILL REST in the shawdow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, 'He is my REFUGE and my FORTRESS, my God, in whom I trust. ' Surely he will save you from the fowler's snare and the deadly pestilence. HE WILL COVER YOU WITH HIS FEATHERS, AND UNDER HIS WINGS YOU WILL FIND REFUGE; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. You will not fear the terror of night,nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. A thousand may fall at your side, a thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. If you make the Most High your dwelling - even the Lord, who is MY REFUGE - then no harm will come near your tent. FOR HE WILL COMMAND HIS ANGELS CONCERNING YOU TO GUARD YOU IN ALL YOUR WAYS: THEY WILL LIFT YOU UP IN THEIR HANDS, so that you will not strike your foot against the stone. You will tread upon the lion and the cobra: you will trample the lion and the serpent.

'Because he loves me, ' says the Lord , 'I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. He will call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. With long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation."

Psalm 91

Stormin'

I know storms are a 'brewin' back home right now ...and rainy season has officially started here in Mbarara...In fact to be honest with you God is stirring within me a spirit of broken-ness. The following poem kind of describes how I feel at this time.

"In my eyes, I imagine that my soul is an ocean where I am tossed by the raging storms of life. Emotions run through my being and all of a sudden I am sailing far beyond the existence of anything and everything. The shore is distant in my view and in light of all reality, it seems impossible to reach. As a sailor battles to stay afloat during a storm, I too, fight, not to stay afloat, but to stay focused on solid rock close to the shoreline, in hopes that I may soon walk again on dry ground." BY :BAC