Our confident hope

“Rejoice in our confident hope. Be patient in trouble, and keep on praying.”Romans‬ ‭12‬:‭12‬ ‭NLT‬‬

I have just been reading about king Jehoshaphat, one of the good kings of Judah. He relied heavily on the Lord is all things but his relationship with the kings of Israel. He continually tried to work with them, each time disaster struck. However, God always rescued Jehoshaphat. Unlike his grandfather Asa, who was faithful to the Lord in most things, but developed a disease in his feet, and he did not seek the Lord for help. King Jehoshaphat encounter attacks by enemies but he sought the Lord and God fought for him, he just had to show up.

Today I am in Chautara. My journey here last night was tortuous. We were to catch a nice micro bus but the bus failed to appear and then torrential rain began. We waited in a lean-to cafe along with many Nepalis. I entertained a small girl. We finally found a bus, an old, groaning beast that entertained us with loud Nepali music. There were huge black car tyres up the centre aisle. We were dispatched about 20kms from our destination and needed to call a taxi. What were the odds in the rain far from anywhere we needed to be. But God provided. Five people were squashed into a small car and off we went. 2500R later we arrived, in the rain, to our destination. At 9pm at night we had our daal Bhat and went to bed.

Today will be a big day. I am to preach at two churches and present a Jesus movie in Nepali in another tonight. I sleep on the floor in that church and tomorrow go to two schools to do presentations on human trafficking. At 4 in the afternoon we catch another bus back to Kathmandu. Monday I am back at college.

This morning my head is ringing but I am going to fight for souls. May the kingdom of God come to Chautara. Amen!