I spoke with the City of Refuge Ministries yesterday, and finalized our fundraising goal for Ghana Rock 2012. To rescue eighteen children from Lake Volta and house them at CORM for one year we will need to raise (drum roll please) $50,400. Now, if you're anything like me you probably have a big knot in your stomach wondering how on earth we are going to do that... but here is the wonderful part, we aren't. God is.
James 1 talks about hearers vs. doers. How those who hear the word but forget are like a man who looks intently in a mirror only to walk away and forget what he looks like. Then he switches gears to talk about the doers who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being no hearer who forgets but they do something crazy... they act. The end of verse 25 is so beautiful because it says that those doers who act and don't forget will be bless in their doing.
Beth Moore summarizes that section of James 1 by saying, "It's not until the hearing turns into doing that believing leads to blessing." She goes on to say that the "doing" James talks about can look vastly different. For some, it can be planning a concert, for others it can be attending said concert. For Abraham the "doing" was unwavering in belief and still giving glory to God. I don't know what the "doing" looks like in your life, for Ghana Rock the doing right now is fiercely relying and believing in Jesus to bless us in our act. And believing leads to blessing, right?
Continue to pray for Ghana Rock, we definitely appreciate it!
See you May 18th (eep!),
Madi
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