New for me as for the first time in 12 months I will have a house called my own but it is an old house built 40 plus years ago. One kind Christian offered to have it refurbished last August but it has taken the contractor 4 months plus to have it completed when originally it was supposed to take only 2 weeks. This has taught me many things that in this part of the world requires great patience and it will not be easy to change things or culture how things are done. If by the second week I move to this new place, I will be still a resident alien living in a foreign land. I think part of my calling, in fact my calling in essence is to move from one place to another. Thus far in my nearly 35 years of knowing the Lord and 22 years of serving Him in a full-time capacity I have never been in one place longer than 6 years (Singapore's stint was my longest) with my pastorate in my home church comes a close second with 5 years and 3 months. In each and every place whether in my home state or home town I have lived like a resident alien in a foreign land, never settled literally and metaphorically, as settling on our lees is one of the worst sins one could commit for in that condition, we neither change nor move as the Lord bids.
Thursday, January 5, 2017
Resident Alien in a Foreign Land
New for me as for the first time in 12 months I will have a house called my own but it is an old house built 40 plus years ago. One kind Christian offered to have it refurbished last August but it has taken the contractor 4 months plus to have it completed when originally it was supposed to take only 2 weeks. This has taught me many things that in this part of the world requires great patience and it will not be easy to change things or culture how things are done. If by the second week I move to this new place, I will be still a resident alien living in a foreign land. I think part of my calling, in fact my calling in essence is to move from one place to another. Thus far in my nearly 35 years of knowing the Lord and 22 years of serving Him in a full-time capacity I have never been in one place longer than 6 years (Singapore's stint was my longest) with my pastorate in my home church comes a close second with 5 years and 3 months. In each and every place whether in my home state or home town I have lived like a resident alien in a foreign land, never settled literally and metaphorically, as settling on our lees is one of the worst sins one could commit for in that condition, we neither change nor move as the Lord bids.
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