Up, Up and Away!

As I sit here waiting for our final flight to Peru, I am thinking about our mission trip and what our team will be doing in San Juan de Lurigancho. I look back on the past two years of work, preparation and fundraising and I think, "How awesome are we! We raised all this money to go and do all this good work! God must really be smiling down on us."

Prideful? yep. Boastful? yep. Shameful? you betcha.

The worse part is that it never occurred to me how prideful I've been until I read this today,
"For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them" (Ephesians 2:8-10 NKJV)

Did you get that part about "works"? I did...big time. It's not by how much I do in service to Him...it's through grace! Nothing we did!Our mission is a co-mission. God called our team and he blesses us through partners in prayer and gifts. He sends us, empowers us and goes with us! He joins us in mission with himself! Yep...nothing we did.

It's Him...all Him.

Blessed,Paola