Seriously, I feel as if I've neglected those bored enough to actually read this. Please understand, guys, I haven't been this tired since wrestling from the womb! You hear people say "but it's a good tired". I am here to tell you there is no such thing! Granted you may be tired from doing good things, but the tiredness in and of itself has as much good in it as a Michael W. Smith album! (that's for you, chris) My foot is sprained! How do you sprain a foot?! That's like overextending your femur.. it just shouldn't happen!
Ok, so I left off Friday...
Saturday:
Saturday, we slept in till 8! That's the latest morning yet! We were due for a trip to GCUC (Ghana Christian University College). It was great! We went to Mr. and Mrs. Cobbs house for brunch, a tour of the university and guy stuff....
GCUC:
Then we went to a bead factory where beads for all sorts of uses are made, baked, and painted. The beads are made of glass bottles melted down and poured into clay molds. I tried talking to some of these fellows, but they weren't in a mood for words. Can't blame them seeing as it was 567 degrees under that hut! Seriously, those guys were tough.
We arrived back at AIS that afternoon to resume the task of moving freight from the giant container we off-loaded Friday night. It was a fun day of work with AIS faculty and some of the local guys. KILLER UNO! that night with teachers. If you haven't played this stuff, google it, wikipedia it, look it up in webster's, just do what you gotta do to get in on some of that action!
Sunday:
Instead of attending Church of the Pentecost in Nungua with the Agyapongs again, we elected to go with some faculty to KICC. This was the nail in the coffin of my realization of just how serious the preaching of a health, wealth, and prosperity "gospel" is in this place! Let me say that God has blessed me with many things earthly, but none compare to the blessing of Christ crucified and ressurrected. If God took all my possessions, people, health, anything, my hope is still in Christ crucified and ressurrected and if I glory in anything else, it is idolatry! The title of the message Sunday was "My Story Will Change", and it was based on the story of Jabez and various other Old Testament characters. I've noticed that in most of these messages, they speak only of Old Covenant people, and not of New Testament believers. They speak of kings and those who conquered, not of converted beggars who remain beggars, not of martyred young men, not of shipwrecked, beaten, imprisoned apostles, not of beaten, cursed, crucified saviors. All those stories were changed too... drastically. God set the story of these kings and conquerors before us for a reason: to show us that we fail, that we cannot uphold a fair covenant with Him no matter how great our kingdom or wisdom may be. Even Abraham could not uphold this covenant, but his faith was credited as righteousness.(Rom. 4:18) God made the covenant unfair by upholding our side for us.(2 Cor. 5:21) Jesus is here to "Change Stories", but not by means of a new house for the impoverished, but by means of a hope which immeasurably transcends poverty. (Phil. 4:13,14) I just read Colossians 2:13-15! It is for this and this alone that we worship God!
I encourage you to read the story of Job....
Were it you, would you worship?
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