BahamaS!

Do Something! So we just got back from Bahamas and how amazing God is. We were there for a exactly a week and had a great time. We started off with 2 days of some R and R and just hung out with an ocean front veiw and nothing to do. After the 2 days, we had 4 straight long days of hard work mixing concrete and putting all the electric and plumbing into 6 cabins for Camp Bahamas. Though it was long and tough, I love knowing what were working for and literally being God's hands and feet in a foreign country. On the last day after all was said and done we had a day of fun swimming and hanging out and then at 7 we had a game fair/carnival for all the Bohemian people. The carnival was amazing having face painting, little trinkets games that lit up children's faces, and a 3 on 3 basketball tourney. While everything was going on Dustin and some other leaders on the court led 8 people to Christ! Wow it was so awesome to watch. With all this going on we still had time to worship and love the reason we were there... for God! Dustin and Chad did an amazing job speaking every night and learned some amazing concepts. Our concept for the week was Do something and notice. Notice the things around you. So many times we live with blinders on not noticing the hurt around us. So this week we were challenged to sit back and notice others and the things that are happening not to us. The other challenge we came across was Do Something. What do you want to do to change the world, big or small... what are you going to achieve. Chad was speaking one night and really hit me with a verse. It was Isaiah 6:1-8, it says....

In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. ²Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. ³And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. ⁴And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. ⁵Then said I, Woe is me! for I am unclean; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. ⁶Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar ⁷And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. ⁸Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

This passage was huge to me in breaking down these verses. It just makes me see how unworthy we truly are that the angels can't even look at God because he's so holy. Not only that but if our heart is truly wanting forgiveness God will forgive with open arms. Furthermore when he cries to the Lord he doesn't blame anyone but himself saying Woe is me. I am unclean. Not anyone else not saying they made me do it or anything but its me that needs to change. Thats what my heart goes out to, that we will not blame anyone else but ourselves for our faults and failures. That we will sit back and notice what others are doing and what we can do to change lives!