For God's Glory

It’s kind of crazy to look back at this past week/ year and see how God has put everything into place just for this day, for this moment. Everything this past year and these past few years has been leading up to this day, this moment, this next hour I will spend with the kids. All the classes I took, all the presentations I gave, all the letters I wrote, all the meetings with my mentor, all the prayers I prayed, they were all for this. They were all ways of God preparing me for this internship. Even here in Rwanda, every time a kid touches me, or waves at me. Every smile, it’s all for something bigger, something greater than that miniscule moment. It’s all for God’s glory. Every time I help Yankurishia pick through beans, it all for God’s glory. God’s gonna use all these moments for something big. Even when I was trying to learn Kinyrwanda with the kids. Every term they wrote down, every passing of the pen, was helping toward building relationships.  Every time they laugh at me because I have no idea what I am doing, it is all for some greater purpose. Now that I worked with them on learn Kinyrwanda, even though I don’t remember everything they taught me they see me differently, with more interest, more respect, they are friendlier. Everything I do with them gives them more perspective of who I am, and eventually, hopefully, it will lead to a better perspective of who God is. It’s crazy how God uses every little moment for his glory, for a greater purpose then just learning a subject at school. Everything I learned in class, I have to put into practice here.  I am so regretting not bringing my hermeneutics notes. Every time I learn or word or talk with a kid, my relationship with them strengthens, and God uses that stronger relationship later when I am teaching them, they listen better, they listen with more respect. Every smile, every time I sweep the kitchen out while they watch me, it’s all for something bigger. It’s crazy how every little thing, every little moment is for something more. So whenever I feel in a rut or I feel like I am just wasting time, I know that I just need to be patient and see how God is going to use this miserable moment for something greater, for His glory.

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. " Romans 8:18