When I step back to look at our future, this question comes to mind. What on earth am I thinking? Going to another country? Taking my kids with me? Learning two languages? Giving up my favorite running route? Selling the house we built with our own two hands? Leaving behind a barn full of memories of dairy goats, guineas, chickens, piglets, and chocolate lab puppies? Moving from our 16 ½ acres where I have planted raspberry, blackberry, and blueberry bushes? Where I have dug holes in rocky, clay soil for 6 peach trees, three cherry trees, and a strawberry patch? Where I have weeded in my garden until my arms ached? Saying good-bye to our family, our church, and our really great life? Seriously, what on earth am I thinking?
Others have asked me the same question in a different form. Why would you ever leave the safety of America? Don’t people here need Jesus? Do you really think the kids will be okay? Are you really going to sell your house after all you put into building it? Where will you go to church? Will you be able to run in Senegal? What if you can’t speak their language? I know, what on earth am I thinking?
Here’s what I’m thinking.
Genesis 22:18: “through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed.” Ps. 96:3: "Declare His glory among the nations.” Isaiah 66:18: “And I (the LORD), …am about to come and gather all nations and tongues…” John 3:16: “For God so loved the world…” Revelation 7:9: “There before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language.”
God has a heart and a plan for all nations. He sent His Son Jesus to die on the cross for the sins of the whole world. For any who would believe in Him, He gives the gift of eternal life, a robe of righteousness, and freedom from sin’s deadly destruction. God has a heart for all people and wants to spend eternity with them.
So what on earth am I thinking? Well, to be honest, I’m not really thinking about earth at all. Eternity, that’s what I’m thinking about.
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