"Have you updated you blog recently?" my dad asked as we whizzed down the highway to Birmingham. Yes, in fact I had blogged lately but not about Thailand.
Now, as I am sitting on my bed in our hotel room, I'm not sure what to write about. Am I nervous about tomorrow? Sure. Am I in complete disbelief that the day has finally come? Sure. But what is really pulling on my heartstrings?

God is truly growing my heart for missions. I am understanding more and more what missions is and our role in it, specifically my role. The discipleship group that I am a part of in Florence just finished reading John Piper's Let the Nations Be Glad. It was a very heavy book but the main point I got from it is this: "Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't." A lot of times we say that we were put on this earth to make God known; to share His gospel to the nations. And that is exactly what we are to do. But first and foremost we are to worship Him. Worship is the chief end of man. Because worship doesn't exist everywhere in the world, missions must happen.

"Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength, ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name. Bring an offering and come before him; worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness." 1 Chronicles 16:28-29

"Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples." Psalm 96:3

"May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine upon us, that your ways may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations. May the peoples praise you, O God, may all the peoples praise you. May the nations be glad and sing for joy...then the land will yield its harvest, and God, our God, will bless us. God will bless us, and all the ends of the earth will fear him." Psalm 67:1-4a, 6

This is a principle that I will carry with me this summer: 1. worship the Lord; 2. make His glory known..

I pray that you will carry this principle with you, whether at work, school, church, a concert, restaurant, Wal Mart, or at home.

Please be praying for our journey! God has written this part of my life out already and I can't wait to see what happens!

In Christ,
Christine ><>