Whatever the Lord wants

Encouragement to grow in my faith comes each day when I look at the picture of the Ethiopian boy with a toothbrush/stick in his mouth.... Why? When asked what he wanted to do after school he said "whatever the Lord has planned."  This is amazing. Why?

Well I wasn't even close to being that strong in my faith when I was a high schooler yet this boy yet in High School and a very young Christian really truly has so much more when it comes to an eternal perspective. Seeing him and knowing his heart brings joy to my heart each and every day to see the work the Lord is doing through the work of others in the town of Yabello, Ethiopia.

To add a little more to this story this young boy was doing exactly what the Lord wanted him to do. That weekend when we went to a very small village to have a rural church service, guess who was one of our translators? You got it. This High School boy was doing the translating from Ahmharic to Oromo of the lessons shared by some of our team members. It is just amazing to see it all come together. The question I need to continually ask myself each and everyday is am I really willing to do whatever the Lord wants with my life like this young boy was at a much younger age?