We do small groups here at MTI where we study biblical topics together. We’ve been studying God’s holiness, faithfulness, love, majesty. What has come across in each of these topics is the idea that God is truly outside of our understanding. He is beyond it – surpasses it. We can’t wrap our minds around Him. We think of things that express His majesty and imagine towering snow-capped mountains which he created. Merely an echo of his majesty. We imagine the faithfulness of Hosea towards his prostitute wife and see, again just a faint symbol of the endless faithfulness of our God. When we think of things that are Holy, we think of things set apart. Yet God is set apart in a way that we cannot even fathom. The only thing that exists that was not created, which had no beggining and no end.

And yet He is a personal God. He is our loving Daddy. He is our husband and lover. He created the heavens and measured them out with his fingers and yet He knows each aspect of each of His kids’ hearts and loves us more intimately than anyone else ever could. He is amazing God.

We think of God’s economy as we fund-raise, as we friend-raise. Sounds so easy to perhaps use the money from the sale of our cars, or house, or other belongings to provide for our one time needs. But that is not the way God is asking us to do it. He is asking us to be dependent, to be humble, to wait on His timing. To catch a glimpse of His economy. Where money is not a means to an end, but a part of a process that is going on in our hearts. In God’s economy it’s not whether you spend it, save it, or give it. It’s an ongong awareness and appreciation that money is not our own. Money holds such a powerful place in our hearts and lives and yet God wants to show us that money is just one more way to connect our hearts. He knows how closely we hold it, how tightly we grasp it. And He uses that to build relationship into ministry.

It would also be easy for us to get focused on how to get just a little more and a little more money so that soon we could get to our ministry. But fund-raising IS ministry. God has given us a precious opportunity to share HIS ministry in Uganda with many, many American Christians. Through us, He is giving them a chance to see Him work in ways they have not seen before. To see Him provide in ways they did not think possible. And as we struggle along in our journey of dependence, He is showing them through us, what it looks like to be held by His right hand. Ever children, ever safe.