I remember a wise missionary (and someone I hold in high regard) once saying, “What you struggle with in your home country, multiply that be 100 and that’s how it will feel on the mission field.” Struggles don’t go away by going to the mission field, they are amplified. Things that may have been small nigglings become large nigglings far from home. Each day there is something new to learn, a new feeling to overcome, a new obstacle to face.
My rational to it all is that God wants us wholly dependent on Him, not ourselves. In the west things are easy to find, easy to do, friends are easy to communicate with and things are so instant that we become independent rather than interdependent on our Heavenly Father.
It reminds me of the verse in 2 Corinthians 12:9 ‘My (God’s) grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness”
Yes I have only been here for a couple of weeks and I am still settling. Things will get more normal and not so hard to do eventually, but this verse real speaks to me and I hope it may continue to speak to me in each clumsy, awkward, tedious, difficult situation I may face. He is sufficient - my strength in my weakness.
