Sometimes you just need the straight up truth. Someone to look you in the face and tell you that you might be acting out of pride. Straight up. That's what this last week was: the hard truth. It was also inspecting our past to see the root system behind our reactions to pain.
The week was called "Identity In Christ." But it focused more on making us whole rather then focusing on who we are in Christ. If we are broken, it is a lot harder to act out of our true identity. So instead of focusing on who we are, we focused on who we are not. It was not what I was expecting. There was a lot of introspection and processing this past week.
The main thing that we talked most about this week was called "the divine plumb line." There is this verse in Amos 7:7-8 where God shows Amos a plumb line. (for those of you who don't know, follow this link to know what a plumb line is.) God then tells Amos that He will not show Israel mercy because they have abandoned His plumb line. We talked about how God has a plumb line (His word) and how we tend to swing away from His plumb line; either to rejection, or rebellion. We also looked into the ways we have been hurt in the past. And how necessary it is to surrender that hurt to God so that we don't act out of that pain. Instead we give our pain to God and be whole, and wholly His. Which is much better than being broken, and bringing our broken pieces to Him. But it was a crazy intense process and I had to do SO MUCH introspection.
I discovered, over the course of this past week, that brokenness is more of a reality in myself then I had ever realized. I was able to go back to un-dealt-with-pain, and give it to God instead of taking that pain and running away from God with it. It was a long week but a good week. I'm not going to go anymore into depth, because it was really personal.... but I wanted to let you have an idea of what has been going on.
For evangelism we went to another part of Mobay and worshiped. We also went around praying and talking to the people around the shops. It is kinds funny to see people react to random white people worshiping around their shops. You get quite the odd looks. I also believe that I made the day of a random taxi driver who enjoyed my worship. I was able to talk to him before we left and he was really impressed with YWAM being bold enough to simply worship on the street corner.
I got to see my friends Alex and Rachel from the Belize DTS again! The Belize DTS is on their last week of outreach and they are spending it at our Mobay base! They came in Friday evening and I got to talk and hang out with Alex and Rachel. It was really cool to get to see all of the Belize DTS again. We also had a game night with them as well. It was really fun. I always enjoy getting together with other competitive people and having a good time. Sadly, we left Saturday to come to Kingston for the week to learn from the Jamaica House Of Prayer (JaHOP). But it was good to see them for even the short amount of time.
This week was just an opportunity to learn how to become a whole person instead of a broken person. A week with good friends. And now I get to find out who I am In Christ all on my own. Let the adventure begin!
In Christ,
Timothy David
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