Late Night with Laminin

So, I'm still dealing with jet-lag. Not as a bad as it was on Sunday, but I was wiped out today.

I got up at 12:30am and hopped on my computer. Earlier in the night I was missing my friends back in Tanzania. I had a craving for oranges and Bora Chai tea and the many laughs the four of us shared.















Laveena, Anna, Me and Elisha


One of the nights as Laveena and Anna were making dinner, Elisha pulled out his Swahili Bible and started to test my knowledge of Swahili. He would open the Bible and have me guess what book or letter it was. It was tough. The words had no similarities to the English words, but I did ok.

I told Elisha I would show him my favorite passage and proceeded to hunt for Colossians 1:15-24 -

Col 1:15	He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
Col 1:16	For by Him all things were created, {both} in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things have been created through Him and for Him.
Col 1:17	He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
Col 1:18	He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.
Col 1:19	For it was the {Father's} good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him,
Col 1:20	and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, {I say,} whether things on earth or things in heaven.
Col 1:21	And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, {engaged} in evil deeds,
Col 1:22	yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach--
Col 1:23	if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.
Col 1:24	Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions.
Col 1:25	Of {this church} I was made a minister according to the stewardship from God bestowed on me for your benefit, so that I might fully carry out the {preaching of} the word of God,

Back to tonight.

I'm on scanning some videos and I find this one and it brought me to tears. Louis Giglio talks about Laminin and the passage I just quoted.

How can you say there is no God??
How can I doubt His love for me when things are tough??
How can I complain when things don't go the way I think they should have gone??

There is not one part of my being that God has not touched, does not know about and does not love entirely. With that knowledge, I'm going to go back to bed, knowing that I am wrapped up in the loving arms of Jesus. It is the very thing that holds me together.