Yesterday I finished my first week of full-time teaching. "Exhausting" is the main word that I can think of to describe the week, but even still, He has given me supernatural strength and abundant joy as I have needed it. And I am so thankful. School only started on Wednesday, but all week long I put in roughly 12 hours a day AT SCHOOL and then another 2-3 hours of work at home again after dinner. I am teaching 5 different preps (classes), grades 7-11, in two different languages, with about 70 students in total representing some 20-30 different nationalities. I have 3-5 students in almost every class who only speak a half a dozen phrases in English and about the same number who could skip a grade or two and still excel. Combine all that with the fact that our water got shut off for a few days in the mix and that it's been around 100 degrees every day for the past few weeks, and you can probably see how it hasn't been the easiest week.
But all the busyness has caused me to fall hard on the One who does not grow tired or weary and whose right hand is never too weak. Yesterday as I was walking home from school around 8pm (on a Friday night), I just felt drained and overwhelmed with how much more work I still have waiting for me this weekend, so I started to pray. And as I prayed, I was just inexplicably overwhelmed with thanksgiving. I was reminded that this is what I came here for. I came here looking for a desert - to be stretched, to feel weak and inadequate, to be humbled - so that I would be forced every day to look outside of myself and my circumstances for my strength. Because I know that when I am doing that, I will live through Him and He will live through me, and that is the building blocks of the Kingdom.
And that is what we want to see here - the Kingdom. Invading. Expanding. Prevailing. My prayer for Ankara is for the Miracle of Nineveh - for the Spirit of the Father to pour down on this broken place because of the obedient witness of a few cracked, clay jars.
He can do it. And so much more.
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4 comments:
hallelujah! amen.
wow! awesome Aaron! that's what we have to do...just totally rely on Him!! Keep going brother!! He's using u for awesome things!! :)
Aaron. Your faith is inspiring. I am so glad that you are doing what you are doing. You have such a way with words and the Word.
I am so proud of you! Keep up the good fight. Continue to make the most out of every opportunity!
PRAISE GOD! Thanks for being a CRACKED POT for the Kingdom's sake!!
Love you and miss you, Aaron!!!
Marilyn & Steve T-seed
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