Letting Go!

Letting Go! Life is full of change and most of us have to let go of things; jobs, houses we have lived in, people we have known, and favorite things we have hung onto for too long.

It seems like missionaries have to let go more than the average person. We let go of our life in our home country, we let go of people we work with every home service and then the process begins all over again. We change jobs, mission stations, people groups and turn over in mission staff. We seem to be letting go much of the time. That is what we are facing right now; letting go of the people we have come close to at Mahula, letting go of Bible school students, evangelists, pastors and their wives we have had the privilege to teach and letting go of Matt, Laura and David. I think we forgot how difficult letting go is when people get into your life like the people we have spent the last three months with. I think a good solution is what we have had to do so many times before; that is to be thankful for the past and look forward to what God has in store for us next. What we leave behind will always be in our hearts, and always prepares us for the future. It is good practice for Christians, ultimately we have to let go of this life but are prepared for the life to come; the New  Heaven and the New Earth built with all the things we have had to let go of. Eph. 4:11-13, Rev. 14:13