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I find myself sometimes dwelling on missing home, however what is home? As I'm currently living in Darwin I'm finding it hard to accept that this is my new home. I guess home to me ultimately is an atmoshpere. After loosing my home physically you realize that a home isn't just about the things in it but it's the people who live in it.

I need to grasp the fact that earth is my temporary home and that heaven is my ultimate home. So I guess I should be thankful that I get to create many temporary homes on this journey God has called me on.

 

The base here at Darwin has a whole new atmosphere and I'm excited to see the new growth God has in store for us here. We have some really great missions coming up. We have mission adventures in a couple of weeks which are short term missions for students to become disciples then go disciple. I will be going along side a team to East Timor for 10 days which should be a really amazing opportunity to show the love of Jesus.

 

I also teach 2nd graders about Jesus in a local school here. While I was talking about how Jesus loves everyone this little boy who has made it very clear that he does not like Jesus, because his dad hates him, raised his hand.
Me; Yes Kaden
Kaden: Jesus doesn’t love me
Me; why would you say that?
Kaden: Because I don't love him.
Me: Well Jesus loves everyone even the people that claim to hate him.
Kaden: Does Jesus love murders?
Me; Yes he does, I just heard a story about a man in Egypt who killed 21 people and Jesus still loved him and even now uses him to tell people about that love the murder received when he accepted Jesus.
Kaden: Well I don't love Jesus now... but ... maybe someday

 (he said this while whipping a tear from his eye)

 

I thought this story was really amazing about how God is at work in the little things that He gives us to do. Kaden, that little boy came up to me as I was walking away after class and asked me for a hug. That little boy who was the thorn in my class had just received a seed of truth that changed him in a moment. He may not love Jesus like he said yet, but I believe someday he will.

 

I know that the Lord has good things for me here and the more that I focus on him the more I will be able to realize that this earth is not my home.

Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in your midst?  

  - Corinthians 3:16

 

For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.          

 -2 Corinthians 5:1