My selfish self

I looked over the city from the 37th floor of a friend's apartment on Wednesday. I was thinking about how beautiful all of the lights looked coming off of the thousands of buildings in front of me. I grew up in a small town, so its amazes me the number of people that can fit in one place.

My friend walked up beside. He's been in China for two years now. I'm constantly learning things from him and should have seen it coming this time. John looked out the window and said, "when I worked in sales, and looked out a hotel window, I'd think 'how many people here are using my product today?' Now I think, 'How many of these people know Jesus?'"

The answer in Hong Kong, is that there are over 5 million people that do not know His love. With those numbers, how can I think of anything else? Its what I keep asking myself. I constantly think about how warm it is outside, why there's so much planned for me, and when will I stop having to sit in meetings. I guess I thought there was some magic that happened when you become a missionary.

I certainly wish that was true. Funny thing, the bible doesn't say "all humans are sinful except for the missionaries." Why not!?! I've started to learn that our imperfections help us to relate to an imperfect world and imperfect people. I thank God every day that He puts people like John, Pastor Sawyer, Josh, Andrea, Megan, Pastor Joel, President Yung, Ken... and the thousands of others that point me toward Him. My prayer each night is that the Lord would make me like these people. That I would point others toward Jesus Christ through everything I do and say.

One day, all of us that saw those arrows will live together in perfection and unity. I hope I will see millions of Chinese there; maybe even billions.