What teaching, taught me.

When you go into a place to teach you will always leave having learnt more, this is one of the biggest things that i have taken away from my time teaching in Samoa. When i was planning on doing this teaching outreach heading back to Aus and going to one of the islands was not what i has planned but it was exactly where i needed to go. While i was there i met some amazing people and got to teach the word of God to 100s of people.


If you had told me that before i would go that i would be teaching to a packed church that had people overflowing into the street and that people walking by would stop to hear me teach i would not have believed you. I would have said something like "that cant be possible, i don't have anything that important to say" and the reality is i am right. i do not have anything to say but God does all i have to do is speak his words. I have done some amazing these of the past 4 years and i am constantly asking myself if this is real life this is due to the fact that there is no way any of this should be possible. I don't have the
expertise of the experience to warrant teaching so many but God does.

I got some amazing experiences on this trip and met some amazing people who changed my life. This trip showed me just how much God will use the pain of the past to shine his glory. I got the opportunity to teach the book of Job in a bible school teaching them just how good God is even when everything is falling apart and knowing that I can say that no matter what God is always good. actually the word good is no where near close enough to describe it. If we use to the word good to discribe God then it cant be used to discribe anything else not a house, a car, not even friends and family. Nothing can even compare to God and yet he gives us so much, so much that we take for granted.

This is the reality there is nothing that we can do, nothing that we can give up that can even come close to what God has done for us. He gave up his own life so that we can did and all he asks for us is everything. To me that is not that much giving up death for life is not a hard choice to make. But what about the smaller things its easier to give up the big things we can easily count the cost when choosing to follow God, for example i know that being a missionary means leaving my family and i will miss so much because of it. If you truly want to follow God then you have been called to live no longer in the world that the fleeting joys that this world can give us are nothing compared to God so why do we keep chasing them.

Traveling the world i have seen many different countries met 1000s of people and 1 things is always the same they all have love their part of the world more then others. Its only natural right? To love the place you grow up to be proud of where you come from? Yes you should be very proud of where you came from but the reality is that you don't come from where your passport says, we come from God. heaven is our home and there is nothing and nowhere on the planet that even comes close to that so why do we keep giving up heaven to have earth? During this trip i asked a group of 20 young people i was teaching what is the cost of following Christ? For some the cost is high for some it is life for some it is family and friends, money but here is the real question. What is the cost for not following Christ? There is nothing we can give up no cost we can pay that will even come close to the cost of not following him. This is the closet to hell that us as Christians will ever get, but this is closest to heaven that non Christians will ever get. That is why i do what i do, no matter how hard it gets i know that this life is so short compared to eternity so what ever suffering we feel here does not even come close to the eternal glory.

God deserves everything that we have to offer all we have to do is say yes and be willing to pay the cost and while it will be hard God is with us so it will always be worth it. I honestly don't know if this makes any sense i kinda just started typing and this is what came out so i hope it makes sense. This is what i do know, God is so much better then anything of this world and there is nothing on this planet that can ever compare to God, so why do we keep chasing the fleeting pleasures of this world? God knows us and he knows our hearts and he does not leave us, chase him and there is nothing that will compare to what he will give you and even if all we get out of it is out salvation then that is way more then we deserve.