God is good all the time!

Today was a really, really, really good day!  After hearing several different people's opinions and praying about it during the week, I decided that Seoul Union Church at Yonsei (the church that is about a 10 minute walk) was the church that God could best use me at while I'm in Seoul.  So this morning, I got up, got ready and headed to church.  Upon walking into the chapel, I could feel God letting me know that I was in the right place.  People I had met the previous week came up to talk to me and a bunch of new people wanted to get to know me.  It was astonishing how much buzz and passion and life there seemed to be in this church that only last week looked weak and somber and lacking fire for God.  Perhaps God has changed my eyes to see the body of Christ at Seoul Union as He sees them.  It was encouraging and exciting and great.

After main worship at 9:30, there is a short fellowship/coffee time, and then everyone goes to Sunday School.  Seoul Union has a Young Adult Sunday School class so I went there really excited to meet some of the young people that are active in this church.  It was an absolute blessing!  This Sunday in the Young Adult class, it was prayer Sunday, so we spent an hour and a half praying for one another.  It was so awesome!  After church, the Young Adult Sunday School class always goes to lunch together.  Thus, I had the opportunity to sit around and talk and get to know some of the active young people at the church. 

I couldn't stop smiling...even now I can't.  I had just had an absolutely TERRIBLE work week.  And as much as I love Seoul, I haven't been able to find my niche since coming.  I have people to hang out with and talk to but no one to share my heart with, no one that completely understands who I am and where I'm coming from.  It was so comforting to meet a group of people who understood me without barely knowing me, because we share Jesus' love.  Unfortunately a couple of the members of this Sunday School class are leaving Seoul within the next month or so.  I'm bummed that I won't have the opportunity to get to know them on a deeper level.  I'm sure as they leave, other people will come, and I'll have a chance to meet new people, new friends.

I just feel so blessed and so loved that God has put me here in Seoul exactly where I am so that I could meet these people, become part of this church, and find a place and a people where I will be able to learn and grow as I work to continually glorify God.  God is so good that He would remind me I am loved and I am His in the midst of difficult times when I feel so unloved and far from everyone.

What a mighty, good, beautiful, just, powerful, saving, loving God we serve!!!

KendallCooke