Resignation and the foolishness

It hasn't felt real (the fact that I'm going to Haiti for 6 months) until this last week. Receiving 90% of my support and then on Friday, I submitted my letter of resignation. My last day will be the 18th of Feb. It has started to hit me: I'm going to be without a job in three weeks and be in Haiti in about a month! Wow.

I had told my supervisors a month or so ago that I would be leaving, so there was no surprise on their part. But I got into a number of conversations with other coworkers about my trip and why I'm going. I was kind of frustrated with myself; I don't feel like I was conveying the depth of what Jesus had done for me and why I was going to spread that love to others. To be honest, as I was saying "I'm going to show the love of Jesus to others so that they might know Him," I felt foolish. I felt like some corny TV evangelist. But as 1 Corinthians 1:25 says, "For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength." My human nature tells me it is foolish and other might hear it as foolishness, but "the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God" (1 cor. 1:18).

So to answer the question of why I am going: "This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also out to love one another" (1 John 4:9-11).

Please pray that as I talk to people about this mission and why I am going, I can be clear that it has nothing to do with me, it's all about Christ. Pray that I can be clear in my words, but most of all that I would recognize the "foolishness of God" for what it really is: wisdom and truth.