December 31, 2009
Seeing what God is doing…
It was sometime in late Fall of 1988. The Mexico City Church was approaching the end of its first full calendar year, having been planted in October of 1987. The original mission team members, plus a few of the new small group leaders who had been converted during that first year, were all gathered at a very special restaurant for a very special celebration. The restaurant was La Hacienda de los Morales. The occasion was the celebration of the young church’s 100th baptism. There was something unusual about the celebration, though: at that point in time we had only seen about 90 people baptized! Nevertheless, the evangelist and leadership group decided that this should be a celebration of faith, not of sight! And so we celebrated that 100th baptism, a few weeks before it actually happened!
Such was the spirit of the Mexico City mission. As we have said in a previous post, the Mexico City Church was planted by a group of missionaries who were deeply convinced about God’s vision for that city. One of our favorite scriptures was Proverbs 29: 18 “Where there is no vision, the people perish”. We didn’t have the Message Bible in those days, but I like the way it renders this passage:
If people can’t see what God is doing,
they stumble all over themselves;
But when they attend to what he reveals,
they are most blessed.
As we approach the beginning of a new year, actually of a new decade, let us try to capture not an abstract vision for our lives, or one that is the product of our own ambitions or imagination. Rather, let us focus on what God is doing and attend to what He is trying to teach us.
May you be richly blessed in 2010!
J De Anda