It’s funny the things you come to appreciate in Africa. I’ve had, for some time, a Derick Webb podcasts saved on my computer. I never made time to listen to them in the States. But here in Africa, where church is in Swahili, I’ve found myself treating these podcasts as sermons. As my time in Tanzania comes to a close, Webb’s words on seasons of life really resonate in my heart and help me to put my time here in Tanzania into perspective:
“I think the Lord, just as He gives daily bread, I think He gives us new vision and He gives us new eyes to see new things and He puts us in a new place with new opportunities and new resources and if He never gave us anything new, than our dependence on him would certainly be less because we’d still be depending on that initial vision, that initial provision, that initial…kind of manna that was only really intended to get us from “A” to “B”. And so I don’t feel like I have exactly the same vision that I did when I started, but it did get me to where I am now. And I am, at best, at any moment, just chasing after what I believe to be whatever the Lord has for me to be doing and just honestly trying to trust my instincts…
While it is good to have big ideas and it is good to chase after them and to see them come to light, maybe those things [ideas] are part of a season for us and that that might bring us to a new place to see a new idea and to go a different direction…our life is made up of seasons and those are things that we can look forward to.”