Seeking the Lord / Going to the movies

I passed my exam!!!

God is good!

The past few days I have been translating a book about the gifts of the Spirit. The man who wrote it is a pastor here in Sweden who has a lot of projects going on in other countries like Israel and Romania and the Middle East.
He called me up the other day asking if I could translate some of his teaching material since his organization was helping to plant the first church ever on the West Bank with former Muslims. Isn’t that awesome! So I agreed to translate his book for like less than a third of the normal price for several reasons, but mostly because I knew I would get a lot out of just reading that teaching as I prepared to translate it! Though basic, it has been very insightful and has reminded me of the importance of the gifts given to the church by the Holy Spirit.

Changing subjects now...
Yesterday morning when I woke up I had this sense that God was speaking a specific Bible verse to me over and over. It was a verse from Isaiah and I kept hearing it: “Seek the Lord while He may be found.”

So I thought that was a pretty exciting word to get and began to spend some time with God, not sure exactly what was going to happen but knowing that something good would happen.
“Seek the Lord while He may be found.” I figured something exciting would take place and I had really been needing to feel His tangible presence.

All at once a totally random thought crossed through my mind that didn’t seem to have anything to do with seeking the Lord. Suddenly I got the idea to take this eight year-old girl named Kim to the movies. I kind of chuckled to myself because the idea was really random, and I don’t really know Kim all that well really, and that certainly wasn’t a thought that had anything to do with me spending time with God.

So I kind of shoved the thought aside so that I could get back to “seeking the Lord while He may be found.”

And that is when the Lord said: “You sought me and you found me.” Which really confused me since I didn’t feel as though I had had some major revelatory experience in God’s glorious presence or anything. So I kind of hesitated and He said it again: “You sought me and you found me.”

So somehow in the process of seeking Him, the way He wanted to be found was in planting that idea in my head of taking an eight year-old to see a silly animated movie at the oh-so-expensive movie theater.

So it ended up being me, Kim the 8 year-old and Hanna, a 7 year-old all going to the movies together. The movie was relatively entertaining, with the main message being, “Follow your dreams, and never give up, no matter what.” So we talked a little bit about that afterwards and in general had a great time, and ate lots and lots of candy!

It was fun! I recommend that kind of activity! I can’t wait to do it again!

KT