When Love Rains Down
I think they were prophetic. Those words I wrote the day I flew off to Costa Rica for a short term mission trip. That all we have is our little bit of nothing and just this… God's love. Because if I had to describe this trip in just one word, that would be it. Love. Because really that is all we have. We can’t save the world but we can love it. And we can’t rescue them all but in love we can make a difference for one. And when the love of God compels us then the love of God directs us and the love of God is what changes us all. I went on this trip in faith that God had called me to go. I went expecting to be poured out. And I was. But the truth is that when you give God’s love, you get so much more than you gave. Because you can't out give God. He loved and so He gave His life for us. And when we love like Him we give like Him but we are given so much more than we had before. ...