Endings and New Beginnings

So I end right at the beginning. Genesis. The Almighty Origin. God. He is the reason why I started this journey to Cambodia. The journey, really, to experience an intimate relationship with Him. If there's one thing I must proclaim all the more, live in tune with all the more and continue to comprehend more and more is this: 


God loves me. For that matter, God loves YOU. He brought me to Cambodia (this sounds bad but hear me out) not to love or serve or care for people. He brought me to Cambodia so that He could love and serve and care for me. Because as it says in 1 John 4:10 - This is love: not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 


Get this. God is love. Without God, I do not know how to love, I receive no love. And, boy, have I tried! To get love from friends and family, to attain affection and acceptance from peers. For a while, it may feel so good, but often my expectations exceed my attainment. And to love. Oh, to love so hard and so much but run dry and empty. Because I have nothing to give. I have missed the point. God is love. Love that far surpasses human love in both quantity and quality. 


And there is only one way to love. One way to God. Jesus. God Himself who came down to earth. Fully God. Fully man. Fully sacrificial. He bridged the gap between God and man. A gap that came into because of my blinding pride, my seething anger, my malicious envy, my depraved imperfections, my uncontrollable sin. I see it in wars fought, political oppression, drug abuse, sex trafficking, suicide, depression, death. It is obvious we need a Savior. Jesus is that Savior. My sin fully paid for on the cross where He died the death I deserved. Fully forgiven. Fully redeemed. Fully accomplished. So that I may have life. Life to its fullest. 


This was the reason I left everything to go to a country halfway across the world from me. Because everyone should know this love, this truth, this good news. Instead, that great love was taught to me in greater depths. So that I may proclaim it clearer and louder - first to myself and then to the world around me. 


As you well may know, I am no longer in Cambodia even though the adventures continue (trust me, they do!). The great experience of Cambodia has moulded and changed my life. 

It is here I end off. At the beginning of a whole new adventure! 

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