Time

I haven't posted on here in quite a while, but I think I'll give it a go. I could ramble on about all sorts of things; update from the holiday's, TFD interview, work, church... but that would take to long. Besides most of those things are in the past anyhow! Nothing like the present. C.S. Lewis said that the present is the moment in which time touches eternity.

So what is my present right now. It is 6:25 am, I am hungry, wearing a sweatshirt and sweatpants with wool socks because I am cold, struggling with my typing, trying my best to just be a servant of Jesus... Why is it that I have such a hard time thinking in the present. I notice that I am usually thinking of the future, what I am going to do today, plans for later this week, even looking forward to next month. Sure all of these future times have challenges and issues that will be unique to them and I do need to take some simple steps of preparation, but this moment... Am I able to grab all God has for me in this moment.

If time, finite and limited that it is, connects with eternity, infinite and unlimited, at this moment of the present, then that means that God is near, right now in the present. God is outside of time and is not able to be limited by it, so when time connects with His reality, eternity, then we who are governed by time can connect with Him, because that is where He is. No more looking to the future and hoping that I will meet with Him next Sunday, or even looking to the past and dwelling on past meeting with Him. All I have is this moment.

One of the responsibilities of the present is to prepare for the future, so here is some preparation. I am leaving for India in 8 days, on a trip with 4 other wonderful men. We will be visiting many different areas of the country and seeing many different sides of the Indian people. We arrive in Cochin (SW India) and will spend 4 days there as a part of the national conference of the India Pentecostal Church. Some 60,000 native believers will be there to receive teaching and ministry. We will be called upon to minster to people as the Lord leads. After the conference, we will travel north to Mumbai (Bombay) and from there take a train to Ludhiana (not on map). We will be meeting with leaders, church planters, evangelists and pastors in the area. This will be a significant teaching and imparting time to those leaders, but the real secret is that the teaching and impartation will be actually happening to us. Our time in India will end in New Dehli and we will fly out of there.

As far as air travel, we will be leaving on the 15th, quick hop to San Francisco and then boarding Singapore Airlines to fly to Seoul, Korea. I have heard that this is one of the nicer airports in the world, so I am excited to see it. I have also heard that the entire country of Korea smells of Kim Chee. We then fly to Singapore and have a 6 hour hotel stay. From Singapore we will fly in direct to Cochin. We will return the same way, leaving India out of New Dehli and making it back to Seattle on the 29th.

I will be posting here on this blog as often as I can. I know, I know... whenever people go on these types of trips they promise that they are going to keep up with the blog, but I really do want to make this a priority...

So there is my soon future, but back to this moment in the present...