An Instrument 4 His Glory

My heart is so full right now. I am just overflowing with love for my Savior and for gratitude in seeing Him work in my child’s life.

My daughter, Melissa, is 22 years old and attends college at LSU in Baton Rouge. She will be graduating in May with a biological sciences degree (pre-med). Her desire is to go to medical school next year and then when she is a full-fledged doctor, she wants to go to Africa and work at a medical missions compound. She will be working at this compound this fall for 2-3 months. She has felt the Lord calling her to do this for several years now.

Friday night, Melissa left with a group of around 35 kids from her church and flew to Bolivia, South America on a mission trip. This group of college kids chose to spend their entire spring break ministering to other people. It was Melissa’s first airplane trip and she absolutely loved it! She did NOT get her love of flying from me!

I got an email from her yesterday and she is just so full of excitement about what the Lord is doing through them. She said it was absolutely amazing at how God is working. They have been going house to house talking with people. She hasn’t spoken any Spanish since high school (she is a French minor). Yet, she witnessed to 2 people in Spanish and led them both to Christ! Praise His Name! She said, “Mama, it just had to be the Lord!”

I am so proud of my daughter. She is doing what we as Christians have been called to do. We are to go into the world and be a witness for Christ. To spread the gospel. To minister to those who are in need. To be disciples.

It is so easy to get caught up in our own spiritual lives… Filling ourselves up with the Word. Filling ourselves up with the Bread of Life. Filling ourselves up to the point of overflowing. We can get so busy filling our own selves up that we can then neglect the much needed act of feeding other people that same bread.