Longing to Go to Uganda..
I started reading Romans this morning, and I was blown away because I felt like Paul. His feelings toward Rome are the feelings I’m experiencing toward Uganda and the ministries I’ll be working with there. I’ve never really related to Paul like this, but for the first time ever I really understand what he was going through. Just more confirmation that this is what God is calling me to. So here’s the passage from Romans, titled “Longing to Go to Rome”:
“First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world. For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God’s will I may now at last succeed in coming to you. For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you - that is, THAT WE MAY BE MUTALLY ENCOURAGED BY EACH OTHER’S FAITH, BOTH YOURS AND MINE. I want you to know, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus have been prevented) in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles. I am under obligation both to the Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.” Romans 1:8-15
