Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

I preached Sunday at Mufika's church on "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize".

The message was about how the saints of old endured, as seeing him who is invisible, and how Jesus for the joy set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and how He is our example. We need to regulate our lives by the assurance we have of Christ's coming kingdom.

The worship, as usual, was great. I told the church that the Lord, who by covenant, promise, and immanence attends every church service on the planet each Sunday, gets himself ready for the sometimes staid and dreary worship of North America by the exuberant, lively worship of Africa. The scene of 30-40 worshippers in the school room of Mufika's church is multiplied by the thousands all across Africa -- it is as if all of Africa is aglow and throbbing with all-out worship of the living God.

As usual, God condescended in his mercy and grace to visit us, and the presence of God filled the room. The treasure indeed is found to occupy earthen vessels.

I think that God perhaps dwells more in the heart and in the feet and hands than merely in the head.

Having said that, it is my task in Africa to help fill the minds of pastors and leaders with the truth of the gospel.