life changing plans
Today in my history of Latin America class, we're talking about religion. Now, most countries that speak Spanish or Portuguese tend to be predominantly catholic. But my professor showed us a video of a woman talking about Spiritism. She didn't say anything about Christ or about the church. She talked about Spiritism. She talked about seeing spirits and an ancestral spirit that possesses her and cleanses others of negative energy so they can be well.
For a second, I totally thought something. While I watched the video, I was filled with a desire to share with her the true gospel, about the Lord that loved her and died for her sins. I don't speak it as well as she does, but we speak the same language.
Now I'm slightly thrown for a loop. I need to pray and spend time in the word. I think, that if I decided to pursue this route, that I would change my classes and not get a full certification, but instead try to pick up esl and some sign language also.
And I'm also not sure how to go about it; part of me wants to pray about every little thing, which is something that I don't normally do, the other part says that if I committ my plans to God and serve him, that I'd be able to decide some of the things.
But the more I think, the more I think that the two are the same. God gives us passions and desires. I want to serve God by speaking languages. I want to serve God through music. I want to serve God through photography. But I want to put all those things together. And missionary is the only thing that I think, as of now, that makes sense. I could teach English as a vocation, my adivisor talked to me that some missionaries follow that example, kind of like Paul and his tent making vocation, I could bond with some through music, and I could use my own pictures and movie making skills to make my own movies to raise awareness and funds.
Does that make sense? Please comment, all of you.
For a second, I totally thought something. While I watched the video, I was filled with a desire to share with her the true gospel, about the Lord that loved her and died for her sins. I don't speak it as well as she does, but we speak the same language.
Now I'm slightly thrown for a loop. I need to pray and spend time in the word. I think, that if I decided to pursue this route, that I would change my classes and not get a full certification, but instead try to pick up esl and some sign language also.
And I'm also not sure how to go about it; part of me wants to pray about every little thing, which is something that I don't normally do, the other part says that if I committ my plans to God and serve him, that I'd be able to decide some of the things.
But the more I think, the more I think that the two are the same. God gives us passions and desires. I want to serve God by speaking languages. I want to serve God through music. I want to serve God through photography. But I want to put all those things together. And missionary is the only thing that I think, as of now, that makes sense. I could teach English as a vocation, my adivisor talked to me that some missionaries follow that example, kind of like Paul and his tent making vocation, I could bond with some through music, and I could use my own pictures and movie making skills to make my own movies to raise awareness and funds.
Does that make sense? Please comment, all of you.