Reflection

Vicki Ostermann • November 15, 2013

As I sit here in the London Heathrow Airport watching the sunrise, I am thinking back on what has transpired during the past two weeks. We enjoyed our time getting to know our new home so much! It’s an outrageously beautiful country with beautiful, kind people. At the same time, the poverty this country deals with cannot be ignored. It’s everywhere you look. By the end of our first full day, I no longer saw it in a way that made me feel uncomfortable. I saw opportunities to help. This takes a lot of time, you can’t just hit the ground and expect to start making a difference right away. You have to develop relationships and grow friendships over time, which reveal opportunities to make a difference.

I’m really looking forward to being in Uganda and seeing what God has for us. I know it will not always be enjoyable, it’s going to be difficult in so many ways. I was reminded in a devotional I read while we were in Uganda that I should learn to appreciate difficult days. That I should be stimulated by challenges that I encounter along my way. As I do this I gain confidence from the knowledge that together with God, we can do anything. This knowledge is made up of three parts: my relationship with God, promises in the Bible and past experiences of coping successfully during hard times.

As I look back on what has transpired in just the past two years, I can see God’s hand at work in our lives when we didn’t even know it. It’s so unbelievably comforting to know that He has us in the palm of His hand.

Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will help you; I will hold on to you with My righteous right hand. Isaiah 41:10

As we are obeying His call on our lives, I know He will protect us and guide us to do the work He has for us. We don’t know exactly what that will look like, but I’m excited to see what it will be. His way are always better than our ways! Although our circumstances are going to be changing drastically, God remains the same throughout time and eternity. This is the basis for our certainty and confidence in whatever we do.

But You are the same, and Your years will never end. Psalm 102:27

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