You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have. ~ Corrie ten Boom

We have been blessed this weekend to travel to Latvia for services with our friends from Riga. I mentioned in my post earlier this week that our kids, Martins and Konstance, had started a new work in Mazsalaca, Latvia, close to the border of Estonia. They have service on Saturday afternoon in this tiny village and we wanted to be with them while we were close by.  The area includes the largest known Stone Age burial site in Northern Europe and was first settled ca. 5000 BC. The present town began to develop in 1864, when a bridge over the Salaca river was constructed.

Heading out on a three hour trip through the Baltic States is a little bit different than taking a little drive through America. There is virtually NOTHING along the way aside from hundreds of storks. Yes, I said storks. I have never seen so many nests atop power poles, ever. They stand guard of all of the babies they are preparing to deliver down chimneys…oops, that’s another fairytale for another day. (smile) But they do seem to be standing guard of their own babies in their home in the sky.

This one was out for a stroll; I barely caught him in action before he took off flying.

We arrived in Mazsalaca in plenty of time to split into teams and do a little inviting. I was paired with Egija, you may remember her story here. We headed down the street hoping to be able to invite a few people to the service, which was to start soon. The church has outgrown its first meeting place and now has a larger room in the cultural center in the center of town. It does not have air conditioning, not too many places in Northern Europe do, and unfortunately, we have had a very unusual hot spell for the last three weeks. It has been in the nineties several days and when you pile 25-30 people in a room, well, you can feel the heat!

That did not keep them from praising God as you can witness in the video below. We had a wonderful time trying to sing in Latvian with them, it has been a while and I was terribly rusty, but we enjoyed the presence of God just the same.

Martins shared the Word, after a short testimony by The Sweetheart. He can never talk without crying when he is with the kids and Saturday was no different.

We are Holy Ghost proud of the work they ALL are doing in this country! They were blessed with a few visitors off the street in this service and it was just a wonderful time of meeting new people and connecting with old friends. I have been thinking of the service since yesterday and stuck with the thought that Christ is enough. Everywhere I go in this part of the world I am reminded how different it is than what I am used to but He is the same. Always the same. He is enough in America, He is enough in the Baltics, the United Arab Emirates, the Philippines, South Africa, Australia…

He is just enough.

He promises to meet our needs, to go with us to the ends of the earth and He promises to come back and take us eternally home to be with Him.

When the doctor delivers a bad report, when your son or daughter lose their home, when an accident claims the life of a loved one, He is enough.

He comforts, soothes, heals, protects, delivers, supplies, gives unselfishly and without reserve what we NEED and when we need it.

He is there. Always. Unconditionally loving us over and over again.

Forgiving and restoring, as His Word has promised.

Even when things do not go my way?

Even then.

He is enough.

No matter whether I see these wonderful people again in this life, I am comforted by the fact that they are working for God, telling others about Him, building churches and congregations all over a country with so very few places of worship.

It is enough because He is enough and He fills all in all!

We should never be complacent with this thought, thinking that He is God and He is able to take care of everything by Himself. We are His hands, His feet, the BODY of Christ, and it is our duty, His command, that we GO and SHARE the Gospel.

Is He enough for you? Do you KNOW Him? Does He fill all in all for you?

There is a beautiful song by Hillsong with this same name, Christ is Enough. Take the time to listen to it today and thank God that He is enough.

Then go, and tell someone else.

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