So many questions...and few answers. As we all get closer to our move dates (and the Baums will be right behind the Shipps and Kings, thank God), our emotions quicken and satan and his minions intensify their activity. He raises more questions and our temptation is to try to answer them...and as quickly as possible. BUT...answers are not necessary. What is necessary is this:

• Know the call. God has called us...he has called us to SC...he has called us to move this spring/summer. God provided this verse this morning. I have never seen it before (was it added?) "...for God's gifts and his call are irrevocable." He does not change his mind. The only variable is our hearing clearly.
• Know the mission. Look at Romans 10:9-15. God asks us to send and preach. People respond by hearing, believing, and calling on him. That's it. We can do this...living in wealth or poverty. Joy will be ours either way.
• Know the Word of Christ. A couple of verses later (17) Paul says that faith is established by hearing "through the Word of Christ." That is what we will preach/teach/share/demonstrate. That is all.
• Trust Him to provide. You know the passage: "Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you..." Don't forget the righteousness part. We want to be holy. He will make us that way, if we want it.

By the way, thank you Abby for your great insight on the last entry.

I love you each...right down to Toby and Fifi (or whatever the Baum's poof dog is called). "God had arranged the parts in the body, everyone of them, just as he wanted them to be."

vic/dad/papa