34 more days! :O

Today's reading: Romans 15:14-21

Paul the Minister to the Gentiles

I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, complete in knowledge and competent to instruct one another. I have writen you quite boldly on some points, as if to remind you of them again, because of his grace God gave me to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles with the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Therefore, I glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God. I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done - by the power of signs and miracles, through the power of the Spirit. So from Jerusalem  all the way round to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ. It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else's foundation. Rather, as it is written:

"Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand."

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Seeing the natural disasters that the people in Bicol had to endure is simply heart breaking. The hardship, the amount of effort and time needed to rebuild their lives, their houses and the devastation they must have felt. All these are probaby things that we may never comprehend.
So, we must try to be like Paul, the Minister to the Gentiles. Through proclaiming God's word and helping them, remind the people in Bicol that no matter how hard things might seem right now, it will get better. I am sure that we will bring comfort and joy to them ;)

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