11.05.2007

SUNDAY: Here We Go!

Savior, it's Day 1 and here we are. You and me. On Your turf. Where You walked. Your homeland. Your promised You would bring me and here we are! It really is more than my mind can wrap around. I am walking through Your land of promise. Thank You for all You did while You were here so that I can walk on this land in freedom.

Left Joppa (Tel Aviv) today and headed north to Caesarea Maritima (by the sea). Right on the Med. Huge rocks with waves crashing. Wow. My thoughts immediately went to the song, "Shout to the Lord all the earth, let us sing. Power and majesty, praise to the King. Mountains bow down and the seas will roar at the sound of Your name." The seas really do roar. And to think they are repeating His name. Wooooooow!!




Then we headed to Megiddo. This valley is amazing. It is absolutely enormous. In Revelation, John talks of the final battle on Earth when the fighting will be so bad that this valley will be filled with blood up to a horse's bridle. People, I'm telling you, I had no idea how huge this valley is. It is gigantic. The amount of blood that it will take to do this, it's just incomprehensible. It just really is! But God has extended grace in order to establish relationship with His chosen people. He is going to fight for Truth!! "Worthy is the Lamb seated on the throne. We crown You now with many crowns for You reign victorious."



Funny sidebar: So I go all the way to Israel and in the group that I'm a part of, lo and behold, a fellow Baltimore Orioles fan. See, you can pick them out of a crowd really because there are not many of us who will admit it much less wear emblems to declare our loyalty to the whole world. Those of us who are, well, we are die-hard fans, regardless of the season. We always sing the National Anthem the same... O say can you see... O say does that star spangled banner... like I said, we are die-hard. So I'm on the bus and on walks Steve and his wife, Amy. And Steve has an O's shirt on. We share our O's heritage and laugh that Amy and I graduated within 20 mins of each other. [Cue It's A Small World After All music]

3 comments:

Cbell said...

How Magnificent is the beauty of God's creation! I can't wait to hear what else you are doing there!

Anonymous said...

I am so excited for you I well up with tears everytime I see a new message! You and your oceans! Make me smile from ear to ear!!!

Stephany said...

Im just excited that there are O's fans out there willing to admit it... tee hee hee