“So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.” -Ephesians 4:17-19
We had a short Bible study in the Atlanta airport while we were
waiting for our flight to London, and this is the scripture we focused on. To
me, this is the saddest scripture. The thought that someone could be completely
absent from God because their heart is hardened is so heartbreaking. But it is
true. I know people who walk within a breath of Christ and miss Him, because
they don’t understand and they are completely stuck in sin. If we read on in
Eph 4:20-24, however, we see that we are the hope for the Gentiles. Christ
made us new and helped us to take off our old selves so that we can be a light
in the darkness.
In Thailand our team is going to be surrounded by darkness
and people who only know sin. God has chosen us to exude Him through our new
self!
Please join us in prayer!
Pray that the Holy Spirit will open the hearts and minds of
the people
to whom we will be ministering.