Full Heart and Bellies

While in Denver for the weekend we were able to meet up with the Gomez family for lunch. Benilda fixed us an authentic Mexican meal, of which I am still recovering (Mexican food, like sin, is great when you’re partaking, but there comes a time when you regret it). It never takes long for Alphonso to start talking about how God is working in his life. He shared with us how a man who was in prison for drug dealing has given his life to the Lord and is getting baptized next Sunday. The man and his wife want to return to Mexico and start a church and an orphanage in their hometown. Alphonso also shared about when he had the opportunity to come to Denver and start a church he was fighting God all the way. He was struggling with everything that he had to give up, in the end he obeyed, but was running from God in his heart, like Jonah. Now he looks back and thinks about all the blessings in his life, all the lives that he has seen God change through his church, and he feels overwhelmed. The connection was obvious. Some days we question God’s wisdom in calling us to Brazil. In the end though, we are trusting that one day we will look around at the changed lives (including ours) and feel that same gratefulness that Alphonso was expressing.