Reverence and Awe

I love Spurgeon's descriptive language here. I can just envision the Colorado River or the Nile or something like that as a stark contrast to the small trickling creek behind my house in August. In fact, when I was in Uganda in 2006, we went to the "Source of the Nile" at Lake Victoria. Apparently there is a deep trench there where water surges upward and outward to create the Nile. Think of the type of energy necessary to create a river as grand as the Nile! Anything less and the water remains within the boundaries of the lake. But instead the Nile snakes its way up through Uganda, Sudan and Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea. This force of a well (practically unending as far as I was concerned) is the same type of rush to the presence of Christ that is available to us as believers. 

While on the topic of Africa, keep the team in your prayers as you go throughout your day. I pray that God opens doors the size of the Nile for lost souls through which to enter freely by faith in Christ. I also pray that each team member sees the wonder of God around them and by God's grace is able to connect it to a picture of what he has done in saving us. In fact, someone sent an e-mail to me yesterday essentially urging me to thank God for our salvation. I want to pass that along because it is so good to give thanks to God for salvation and to remember him as much as possible.