Ethiopia Feb. 2023: God Will Fight for you

Written By: David Helfrick

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2/19, Sunday VDay 1.

Waking up this morning was a chore, after the long day Saturday and not being able to finish packing getting ready for bed until after 11pm. Oh, the suffering life of a short-term missionary, I suppose.

At breakfast, I confirmed the Helfrick-coined invention “chociatto” (machiatto with Helfrick-sized portions of dark chocolate added, for those trying to follow along) does indeed need added sugar to reach a tolerable state. It was a valiant effort.

I volunteered to do the devotion this morning. And here is the crux of that.

I won’t know an answer

1 Corin 1:25

For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength

I am not strong, or I am not <whatever> enough.

Deut 1:30-31

The LORD your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, and in the wilderness. There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son

2 Corin 10:3-4

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

I won’t know what to do.

Exodus 14:14

The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still

Overall for the day, the teams had 190 people who heard the salvation message, and 34 (I think) who accepted. I teamed with Karen today, and we had a day of seed sowing. Every day can’t be harvest day. While I struggled a with sowing day, and always do, Karen encouraged me with her positive, and biblical, long-term view. If you ask me how today was – I’ll say I had a day that ends in ‘y’. Like joy…. Like glory…. Like eternity. So I guess I’ll say it was a good day.