You drench its furrows, and level its ridges; you soften it with showers, and bless its crops. (Psalm 65:10)
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“How could I serve an invisible God?” That was the question that I couldn’t fathom. And I’ll never will. No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father’s side, has made him known. (John 1:18) The moving to America has become one of the most enduring experiences ever. Writing in this blog became a great blessing, and I hope it is for many of you. Just thinking about hope and uncertainty and grace and waiting for an answer… bit by bit, my life is turning to become a mystery in the stars. The fact that moving is close to done is not only an end to a period in my life, in which 15 years God spent in the making. It is the beginning of a whole new one, in which His grace will be experienced to the evermore. Joseph knew what he was talking about in his last words before his death: Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” (Genesis 50:24) “In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.” (John 16:16) With my father’s incoming return, an egg-tastic week, and another incoming protest in the school, next week is promised to be a smorgasbord of crazy! Now, there has only been one remedy for my sanity and only one at all: Jesus Christ. I will devote myself to writing about the last days of moving to Puerto Rico and the incoming adventure to the “land of the free and the home of the brave”. Now, let’s start with the smorgasbords! It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it. (Deuteronomy 30: 12-14) Papi’s back from the States. It’s been over 4 months since he left. Alas, the countdown has begun, and we should leave shortly. Sad, but happy at the same time. I’ll leave on with this song, “Forever”. Think of it, I’ll tell ya why tomorrow. In all of the ages, no hope or event has come so predicted, so unreachable, so… unthinkable, that it is certain will happen sooner than we think of: the return of Christ and the consummation of the ages. “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.” (Matthew 24:32-34) From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the rock that is higher than I. (Psalms 61:2) As I laid in my white polo shirt and jeans (the polo being worn by my sister last year in 12th grade), I took a photo of it. This was a reminder of the last time I would lay out clothes on Puerto Rico… maybe, for now. I also looked up the door to the empty street, with cars zooming by. School is tomorrow, ecstatic to start. But, what about my friends? Teachers? “Enemies”? The confraternity youth club that God let me open to the school again? (I was to lead this until I graduate on May 2011.) Looking up the door meant sadness, the sacrifice of going where God wanted me –nay, my family- to the evermore, into a place we have never known. Maybe like Abraham? God’s words were true in John 21:18, when Jesus spoke to Peter: …“I tell you the truth, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” (John 21:18, emphasis mine) Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. (Matthew 10:29) |
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