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Do the good you ought to in the new year
The greatest change began when we first stepped foot on African soil. I felt it immediately, but did not realize what I was feeling until later. The change that began that first night, and continues even today is the "realization." that nothing is what it appears to be. If it is, it won't be for long, and there is nothing I can do about it except to make adaptations, adjustments and allowances. Most of us come here from the U.S. with the idea that our being here will change things. Later we find that, what is changed most by our being here, is "our being." It is very deceiving to many, because surface changes take place (for our benefit) but beneath the surface very little is altered. Back home, I felt in control of at least the little things in my life. I was able to make decisions about what I would do and when I would do it because I lived in an orderly society. Here the society is not as orderly, there are fewer fixed parameters to work within, so what you plan is foolish. If you fight it you go crazy, or you go home. If you stay, it is because you come to understand James 4:13-17. "Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes." Instead you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." And it is you who boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. Anyone then who knows the good he ought to and doesn't do it, sins."
Let's make 2008 the year we "do the good we know we ought to do," and I'll see you in church.
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