"If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town." --Matthew 10:14.
Through these past two days, God has definitely taught me what this means. I have been spending a lot of time and energy lately on worrying about a certain relationship. I have spent an unhealthy amount of time calling out, speaking Truth, and trying to get them to listen. I had been doing this so much to the point that it was affecting my personal relationship with God. I didn't even write last night because I was just so exhausted from it. God showed me this by speaking through my wonderful friend Matt Martinez. If I am constantly speaking Truth, and those words aren't being heard, then I literally have to shake the dust off my feet. He also told me that Jesus didn't stay in one city just because one person didn't believe. He worked miracles, spoke Truth, and moved on. He told the ones that didn't believe, that one day they would see He was the Son of God! I understood that I can't constantly put all my time and energy into this if they are not listening. I have literally done all I can do, as a brother in Christ. This really hurts, because these two people are very dear to me and some of my closest friends. They were there for me at the beginning of the year, but it got to the point where they had to wait on me to come to them. I am at that same place now, and God is going to have to take care of that! Even though it hurt me to tell them that I was done exhausting myself, making an effort, and leaving it up to them to now make the effort, I feel so much better! My relationship with God comes first and foremost, above all! This is something that I really have come to realize through all of this. No, that doesn't mean I am going to lock myself up and spend all of my time just God and me. Community is important as well, very important actually, but my relationship with God comes first!
UPDATE: We just figured out today that by going through Asian Hope our trip for the last 23 days is going to cost us $3,200 for the WHOLE TEAM!!! This means that our cost for our trip is going to be cut from $3,900 per person to $2,800-$3,000 per person! God's provision is so wonderful and magnificent! This is awesome because of that I now have 3/4 of my money raised for my trip! Praise God!
--Your Constantly Humbled Son
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