Welcome to spring! Hope everyone at your house is well. The Embrace family is continuing to recuperate from their adventures in health. We are so thankful!
Dane, Marci and Melinda along with our families have been on the road again. We always enjoy seeing old friends as well as meeting new ones. God has blessed each of the services we've participated in by sending such tremendous encouragement and, in many instances, spiritual and emotional healing. God knows our needs and is so faithful to provide just what is necessary at just the right time.
A dear friend and I were talking just the other day about the ministry that God has called us into. Admittedly there are those who honestly think that we have lost our minds. Anyone I suppose who would spend their week-ends on a bus with ten other people, five of whom are ten years old or younger, riding for hundreds of miles only to unload a vast array of equipment, set it all up, sing for 45 minutes to an hour, load everything back on the bus, and drive to their next destination only to repeat the process would be of questionable sanity, but there are many groups out there doing this month after month. Why?
The answer is simple indeed, even if the process is not. The Lord Christ told us to do this. In Matthew 28:19 Jesus said to His disciples, "go" and in verse 20 He said that when we go in His purpose that He would go with us.
In our Sunday morning Bible study we've been looking into the book of John. Last Sunday we studied the contrast between Nicodemus and the Samaritan woman at the well. Both were in need. One came seeking truth while the other just wanted water. One was socially elite, the other an outcast in a society of outcasts. It is interesting that although Nicodemus came to Jesus, Jesus went to the Samaritan woman. He knew she was coming to that very spot by the well and He went to all the trouble of meeting her there. Thanks to the Savior, the woman went home satisfied, never again to thirst for the Living Water that filled her soul that day.
Jesus' feet were calloused and dirty no doubt but to the woman at the well those feet were the most beautiful that she had ever seen. Long before this woman was ever born Isaiah wrote, "How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, 'Your God reigns!'" What looks very unbecoming to this world is lovely to the Lord God and to those who receive Him.
Jesus had feet that were busy going. Today we are His feet and as such we may appear undesirable, even detestable to those who have never been born again. But are we busy going? Your "going" may mean reaching out to those very near you, those you encounter daily. Whatever "going" God has entrusted to us, I pray that we are faithful. Wouldn't it have been tragic if the woman at the well had come, found no one there, drawn her water and returned home that day the same as when she came, never to know the Savior's love, never to have the Truth revealed to her?
My prayer today for you and for Embrace is that we are found faithful in our going where God appoints us to go, reaching those people He has destined us to reach for His kingdom. God bless each one of you!
Love in Christ from the Embrace family.
Nora Truhett
http://www.embraceministry.com
Author: AGM
| Author's Website: http://absolutelygospel.com/
Written: 04/01/2006
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Category: Embrace
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Great article on a great group from MS.! Though I have not had the privilage yet to see and hear Embrace, I enjoy their music and message on WFCA radio. Wow! To tavel every weekend on a bus with 10 people, and 5 are kids, these folks are dedicated. Keep up the good work Embrace and I hope we get to see you soon somewhere in MS.
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