Invincible

I'm invincible until the purposes of God are complete in my life. That doesn't mean I have license to be unwise or cavalier, it means I'm at peace. I've been to over 20 countries and spent a year of my life in East Africa. It is this certainty that has given me confidence to go to the nations and it is this certainty that guides me now. I've spent a lot of time with radical missionaries who often put their lives on the line for the cause of Christ. They cite this same principle in engaging in their adventures. It doesn't mean we can't get sick. All of them have, and I have. It means God is sovereign and I'll only get sick if He wills it. And it means even if I *do* get sick, He is Lord. He reigns over malaria, which I got in 1990. And He reigns now over the coronavirus, even if I do get it. God is able to save me, but even if He does not, I trust His plan for my life and family.

I have a friend in Africa who has lived a life full of miracles. In the early 2000's, during the holocaust in Sudan, he felt God call him to start a ministry in South Sudan in the heart of a war zone. He had to trust God to guide his vehicle around land mines and through LRA territory just to get there. Then he had to trust God to protect his Bible school, though the radical Islamic terrorist regime in the north tried to bomb him from the air 4-5 times a week for the first 6 months. The bombs never hit.

I am invincible until God's purposes are complete in my life, and so are you. "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths" (Proverbs 3:5-6).