Thanks to the Giver of good gifts!

If you are waiting to hear about the car situation...today's post is for you! We looked around in Kingston last week but did not spot anything spectacular or tempting enough to move us away from the Suzuki Jimny. This is quite fine with us because we have loved and thought about getting a Jimny from the first month we arrived in Jamaica! So when a church brother asked us if we were interested in buying a Jimny from him, we were, as you may image, definitely "stoked"!

We praise God for His unending goodness of which this car is only a small example. Psalm 37 tells us that when we first delight ourselves in the Lord, He gives us the desires of our heart. Many use this passage to support a "health and wealth" prosperity gospel, but then God is becomes a "genie in a bottle." Instead of a means to the end, God should be the end of our delight itself. We are to find our full pleasure in the Lord regardless of what we do or do not have (materially, socially, etc). When He is our great joy and the fullness of our desires, God gives good gifts, as a husband gives flowers to his wife, for no reason other than to make her smile and to demonstrate his affection.

We thank you very much for all your prayers with us as we shopped and deliberated. We also thank you for your support of the ministry financially! We are humbled and blessed by the way God has prepared the way for us by way of so many faithful people like yourselves.

Enjoy the pictures of our, and in a way, your, new car!



Tune in tomorrow for an update about our 2010 Youth Conference...