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as i sit here and watch the people walk by, using a crazy fast internet connection, i cannot help but think of what in the world is going on.  my friends in Buloba are just beginning to wake.  the roosters are probably crowing and the dawn is breaking.  and i am in a big airport with thousands of folks going to i don't know how many places.  the contrast is so stark.  

but as i sit here, i cannot help but think of my God.  our God.  and how he is intimately aware of everyone.  everything.  everywhere.  that as the sun rose when we were landing and the sky was beautiful pink and purple and the sun a brillant orange- HE. DID. THAT.  and it was good. 

and He loves me.  with an everlasting love.  and He loves you.  with a redeeming, overwhelming, everlasting, powerful love.  His word is TRUTH.  and i wonder how many people here in amsterdam, in this airport have no concept of these simple, eternity shifting truths.  and i pray and wonder- what can i do about that?  it almost makes me want to stand up at this rail behind me and shout at the top of my lungs- HE IS LORD.  HE LOVES YOU.  YOU NEED TO KNOW HIM.  not just 'know' Him.  but to know Him- as in saving knowledge.  the making Him Lord of your life.  as in, the flip your world upside down, and you will never be the same knowing.  and the knowing that makes you realize how blessed you are to be His, and how unimportant so many of the 'things' we 'value' are.  

i love my life.  i love Him more.  hope at the end of the day you do to. 

1 Peter 2:9- But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light."