This week can’t be described by any other word but… intense. I’m learning so much about the Swazi culture and let me tell you, thing here are so different. Although I haven’t experienced a huge culture shock here, I am just amazed at the simplicity of life on this side of the globe.
One major difference is time. The concept of time here is basically non-existent. The rooster crow all stinkin’ day long and our bus driver showed up 2 hours late and thought nothing was wrong with that! But hey, this is Africa. So with all this free time I’ve had A LOT of time to read and study and just to literally sit and chat with the greatest father anyone could have.
Everything here is so beautiful, it’s hard not to thank God for things constantly.
But it’s not all peaches and cream…
This, to be quite honest, new found drive to really KNOW the Lord has posed quite a problem with Satan. This week I was crazy attacked, I spent a lot of time broken, pleading with God to make it stop. But I’ve learned more about Gods character through this than through anything else this week.
He is so faithful. He gave us the armor to fight off the devils schemes.
He is the light. And he gave us a light within us to expose the darkness.
He is my protector. Always replacing any fear with peace, and never giving me more than I can handle.
But most of all, He truly loves me. Enough to want me, even in all my brokenness. He wants me to want Him, He wants me to talk to him. And he doesn’t want me to carry any burden because they’ve already been lifted through His son, Jesus Christ.
I’m learning what it really means to fall in love with Christ and its literally the most joyful and satisfying thing I’ve ever experienced. He is ALWAYS enough. And it took Him sending me to the bush in Africa to get that through my thick skull! Then the fact that He cares that much still astonishes me. God is so good, and He always will be.
Falling deeper everyday,
Katie
