God is so good!

So I have not updated this blog in a VERY long time and a lot has happened in my life as I have seen God do so many things in/through my life this year already. I seek to open up my life and share how God is moving. All glory to Him!

1) East Asia and my heritage/cultural background Challenge
-God has been working on my heart and given me a burden for my own heritage/culture of Vietnam/China and for them to know the love of God. In this process, I  applied to go to East Asia on Summer Project with Campus Crusade for Christ. I got accepted to this project, but long story short: my dad was not going to allow me to go this year for financial reasons. ‘With our economy the way it is he didn’t like the idea of me asking others for support. Attempting to go forth with the project, and ignore my dad’s wishes, God began to truly close the door in my disobedience to ‘Honor my father’.

My dad’s father and youngest brother in Vietnam became very ill and may pass away very soon, calling for my dad to go home to Vietnam this summer.

Loving my family and after lots of prayer, if I went to East Asia I believe it would cause a big stress strain on my family as we have extended family of 3 living with us and my mom vents with me as I listen and comfort her.

Seeing all this ‘fall-apart’ was really rough as I had poured out so much spiritually in prayer over the trip and the softening of my parents heart for it. A truth spoken by Paul that really has been my crutch for this spring semester reminded me to have hope:

“But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. AND DO NOT FEAR THEIR INTIMIDATION, AND DO NOT BE TROUBLED, but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;”
-1 Peter 3:14-15

With nothing to do for summer and going through so much, I still had hope that God would still use me this summer, and He provided MANY opportunities. The door was opened for me to work at Crossroads Worldwide Summer Camp again, take summer school and take a ‘Biblical Distinctives’ course through my church, Crossway Chapel of Wilmington. Accepting these opportunities for this summer,  I look forward to what God is going to do this summer at Crossroads as I minister to teens and at the same time preparing me to to go to East Asia next summer! Oh God is sooo good!

Set Jesus apart in your hearts and continue to have to have hope if you are suffering for the sake of righteousness! Be patient, the Lord provides!