Selah
is a recommendation we read in the bible. It tells us to pause and weigh what we just read. It indicates the previous section just told us something we should take a minute to understand.
Just the other evening I had a selah...a pause. I learned about a little girl named Selah who blew my mind. This young lady is somewhere around nine to ten years old and she has made a decision to follow God in an amazing way. You see, Selah feels she has been called to be a foreign missionary. More than just talking about it, this young lady has put her feet into motion.
Selah´s home church was preparing a missions trip to Africa and she wanted to go. The only thing between her and her first foreign missions trip was $5,000. As adults, this kind of money is a huge amount and will keep a lot o f us at home. Not Selah, she just started talking to folk about donating funds to her trip. She has so far gathered most of the funds and still has months to get the final $1,000 or so she needs.
Jesus rebuked his disciples when they tried to stop the little children from going to him and it sure would be easy for the adults in Selah´s life to stop her from going to Africa. The adults in her life could have explained how it was impossible to raise that kind of money in time.
They didn´t. And young Selah caused me to pause. Do I have the faith of a child?
Just the other evening I had a selah...a pause. I learned about a little girl named Selah who blew my mind. This young lady is somewhere around nine to ten years old and she has made a decision to follow God in an amazing way. You see, Selah feels she has been called to be a foreign missionary. More than just talking about it, this young lady has put her feet into motion.
Selah´s home church was preparing a missions trip to Africa and she wanted to go. The only thing between her and her first foreign missions trip was $5,000. As adults, this kind of money is a huge amount and will keep a lot o f us at home. Not Selah, she just started talking to folk about donating funds to her trip. She has so far gathered most of the funds and still has months to get the final $1,000 or so she needs.
Jesus rebuked his disciples when they tried to stop the little children from going to him and it sure would be easy for the adults in Selah´s life to stop her from going to Africa. The adults in her life could have explained how it was impossible to raise that kind of money in time.
They didn´t. And young Selah caused me to pause. Do I have the faith of a child?
Labels: faith, missionary, selah, young person
posted by Pastor Tom at 8:43 AM
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