Your Love Never Fails

Your love never fails by Jesus Culture

Nothing can separate

Even if I ran away

Your love never fails

I know I still make mistakes

But you have new mercies for me everyday

Your love never fails

You stay the same through the ages

Your love never changes

There may be pain in the night

But joy comes in the morning

And when the oceans rage

I don’t have to be afraid

Because I know that you love me.

Your love never fails.

This week, I am basking in the lyrics of this song. My human heart and mind grow weary and faint, but his love never fails despite my shortcomings. This idea is something I have really been battling and struggling with. Failure. What if I fail, what if I screw this all I up and have all sorts of regret? Thankfully, although those are legitimate fears, I don’t have to be afraid because I know that He loves me, and that kind of love never fails. Human emotion and thoughts are ever changing, always fleeting, but my savior, his love and understanding of me is always the same and always right.  I know that he makes all things work together for His good. He doesn’t need me, but he chooses to use me and you make all things work together for my good.

The promises written in Jeremiah 29:11 give us the gift of knowing we are given hope for a prosperous life and a future that is full of hope and no harm. Our Jesus wants us to be given life. Life that is far past this earthly body we now hold. Sure trouble will come our way, we are guaranteed of that in John 16:33. The Lord himself assures us that trouble will come, but in him, and only Him we have solid peace because He has already overcome the world.

What joy and peace that should bring us, in the hard times, in the times of doubt, failure, and confusion. My Father has already overcome the world and has a life promised for me full of hope and a future.  As long as I am seeking his face first and coming to Him with all things He will not let me down. My mistakes and failures will not determine the course of my life. He can use ALL things to work together for HIS good.

What rest and peace I find in that this week.

As most of you know this week held the border crossing. God had his hand on us obviously on that Friday. He answered prayers and was bigger than any immigration officer or any border law. Thank you Jesus for choosing to work right in front of my eyes.

It was sad to say goodbye to a fellow volunteer Jessie that day. Its never easy seeing people who you have gotten close to head off back to the states! Especially when she brought up the idea of air conditioning! Haha! I am so glad we had these last 3 months together and I know she will do great things for the kingdom of God throughout her life!

This week I also acquired 5 additional kids into my already cram packed classroom! The first grade teacher had to travel to Zambia for training, and so her kids have joined my class for the last two weeks of school! Talk about a crazy learning environment! It has been fun and crazy and I know that this upcoming last week of school will be the same! We had lots of fun learning about the postal system. In fact, some of you should be on the look out for letters from my sweet kids! :)

The water in the Zambezi river is rising fast and it is rising all around us. You see, were we are becomes like an island because water surrounds on both sides. It is rising right here on the rivers edge, but also it is coming from the south and will eventually cut us off from the road to town all together. We are hoping the water holds off enough that we can transport all the children to their villages this coming Saturday! Who knows, maybe by my next blog we will be using the boat as transportation!

We haven’t had to many animal encounters lately, well minus the PYTHON sighting the guards made last Sunday night. YES. Python. As we sat at dinner Sunday night we heard a gun shot and knew it was very close. The next morning Uncle Samushi, told us that last night as he was walking home he looked in front of him and saw what he thought was a large tree limb… and then it moved. He said it had to have been 5 meters long and very, very fat. He yelled for the guards to come over and kill it. They shot at it, hence the shot we heard, but missed and the big sucker got away. Lets just say my walks back home at night have become much swifter.

This week is the start of our last week of school for this term! Friday we will begin transporting children back to their villages. And there will be just a few children here for the next month. It will definitely be a weird feeling not having them all around, but it will also be a welcomed break!

*** Internet connection has been terrible lately... so i will try and upload picture later this week!***