Whew!

The past week and a half has been wild. I left on Wednesday, March 22 for a ministry time with our friends at the First Baptist Church in Elmhurst, Illinois; returned to Boise on Monday, March 27; washed clothes on Tuesday; flew to Los Angeles on Wednesday and have been meeting with folk here to talk about “House Nazareth” ever since. The flight from Chicago to Boise was through Seattle (I know…) and actually took longer than a direct flight to Frankfurt would have.

As we come closer to the deadline for the down payment (April 25), it’s frankly hard for me not to feel a tinge of panic. Why is it that my heart finds it so difficult to trust God in the twilight? Call it the “children of Israel at the Red Sea before the waters parted” syndrome: in spite of all that God had already done for them, they still had trouble resting in His love and care.

I think that - at least for me - it is linked to the fact that, as a true “son of Adam” (daughters of Eve have the same challenge), there is a deep, fundamental flaw in my spiritual make-up (the old Bible word for it is the “flesh”). It’s like a spiritual “arrhythmia” that can knock my heart out of rhythm with God. Like most physical arrhythmia, it isn’t constantly present; it manifests itself mostly in times of stress – when the Enemy whispers “God doesn’t REALLY mean everything for your best! You need to look out for yourself!”

Lord, forgive me for being so tuned-in to Satan’s whispers. Help me to “tune my heart to sing thy praise” (as the old hymn says).

Here’s the current status of the “House Nazareth” finances: $605,000 in donations and longer-term interest-free loans; $400,000 to go by April 25th… [did I say that already?] (-:
Please pray: a) that our hearts will be tuned to the Lord and not the Enemy’s whispers; b) that God’s Spirit will speak to those whom the Lord wants to step forward and give sacrificially to see a new beach-head established for the Light in Berlin. (Many have already given beyond their human capacity; God must touch other hearts.) Thanks for being there!