Despite his struggle with a bad cancer, Nelson’s overall feeling is that he’s been called to where he is today, and he expresses contentment in knowing that.

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October 4, 2022

Is heaven mirrored here on earth? Would we do a lot of things different if we could see it even for a minute? I wonder about that.

How much different would my life look if I were able to go there for a few seconds and see the outcome of a life lived one way vs. a life lived more for self? Would I tell myself to sell everything and give it away, to go to India and preach the gospel? What would I do?

Maybe we are in the right place already. I’m pretty sure of that with my sickness. I’m so thankful to still be alive after 6 months now of fighting this thing. It was close there for a while. In one way I’m thankful to have been taken out of where we were and brought here to this new struggle.

Full time, super busy ministry can be a dangerous place to live and work. It can look like something it’s not. It can look and feel like you’re doing well and good with the Lord, yet you’re cold as ice spiritually. You are the only one who knows it, and maybe there are lots of others like you around, and everyone is being lulled to sleep by the enemy together. It’s possible.

The Bible tells us it can happen. Jude gives a pretty scathing rebuke for people who are clouds without rain, shepherds who are in it for personal gain.

The sermon at church Sunday was pretty much about that. Ministers who are like the Pharisees. They were the leaders of the day but who taught without authority. The people recognized Jesus because he was different, but they didn’t even see him, because they were cold and out for selfishness.

Let’s make the best life we can for ourselves. Maybe even us as Christians don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. What is our motivation? Why are we doing what we’re doing? Why do we choose a job? Live in a town? Does the weather draw us, the nice people, a comfortable existence? Safety? Those are probably good questions to ask ourselves.

Not that we want to go and live and try to be a martyr. We have to let God be in charge of that. But still, when we were called to come here, I knew it was right.

We always said that one day we would leave, and we would know. No such thing as just going to a place because family is there or because it’s got a nice set-up.

Lots going on and usually I’m the one traveling, but not this time. Thank you Lord, for my position. I am happy with where the boundary lines have fallen for me. I have done my share of road trips and they’re super fun, but I know now it would be different, and it’s not my place.

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“The boundary lines for me have fallen in pleasant places. Surely I have a delightful inheritance.” (Psalm 16:6)