Rich Sheep in Thailand

I started listening to Dave Ramsey's financial peace university cd's. Sweet. They are pretty legit, and full of common sense things that we all seem to have a hard time putting into practice. Today I flipped open to 1 chronicles 29. It is an awe some chapter. Verse nine really stuck out to me. It said, "The people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given freely and wholeheartedly to the LORD." Then verse 14 that emily so kindly pointed out. "But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you , and we have given you only what comes from your hand." So lesson number one, everything comes from our Lord God Almighty. Lesson number two, we need to give back to the one who gave us everything. Lesson number three, I need to be better with my money.

Now, I'm in starbucks listening to Chan. I'm in Love Part 2. As I'm listening I doodle out the word Thailand with a question mark in bubble letters and neatly color it in. And what have you, Chan plays a video for his people and not 10 seconds after i finish coloring, I hear something to the effect (my statistics might be off), "Every day more than 2000 kids are sold into the sex trafficing industry." WHAT?! If that's not a sign, I don't know what is. Honestly, I haven't thought much about Thailand and saving prostitutes. But just one day I think about it, and then God affirms it. Alright, So How does this happen?? We'll just wait and see.

Chan goes on, he's telling me to visually picture the scene in Mathew 25:31-46. The Sheep and the Goats. The story of where he separates the two. And I wanted, with all my heart, to be a sheep on His right side so I could hear him say, "Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take you inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me somehting to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me." Do I do any of these things? My heart broke at that moment to just be near Jesus.

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. - Philippians 3:10-11