"This is what I was born to do!" This blog may be titled "Still Quiet Voice", but those words were not quiet, not much is when it is spoken by Randall Black. A thing you have no know about Randall is he is a great preacher, he can take a Bible verse and break it down and explain it so that it makes sense like it never had before. He just has an incredible understanding of scripture and can make words on a page be applicable to everyday life, as God intended for them to be when he inspired them. The other thing you need to know about Randall is the brother can tend to be loud. Not that it's a bad thing. His energy makes his sermons come to life in the most amazing ways. As he was giving his testimony on how doctors told him he would never preach again due to throat surgery he made the empathic statement, "This is what I was born to do!"
It's been almost three weeks since I heard those words and I still can't shake them. Now as it was when I sat in the pew, my mind continues to wander back to Montego Bay, Jamaica. Maybe it's all the Blue Mountain Coffee I've had to drink tonight but I felt the need to write about thing thing I was born to do. I go to what is supposed to be depressing places; a school in what may be the roughest neighborhood I have ever seen in my life. A hospice full of pain and sickness. Orphanages were children have been forgotten. But in that school house I feel love poured out with no reservation. In that hospice I see people with faith that doesn't just move mountains, it moves people from a place of suffering to true peace that passes any earthly understanding. In these orphanages I see joy that only comes through the love of Jesus Christ. In these places I get a sneak peak at what I think Heaven will feel like. It comes from loving and being loved, from doing the will of God the father. It comes from seeing the book of James come to live. Living out James 1:27. This is what I was born to do, who's coming with me?
