the task is so big and yet so small

I'm currently recovering from a rollar coaster of emotions centering around God's amazing and immeasurable task of taking the gospel to all nations and peoples. Our story begins a month ago, when I was riding up a mountain in Wiwili, Nicaragua. As I rode up the mountain in an old pickup truck, I felt a sense of awe and wonder at the vastness of God's creation. We'd see houses on top of mountains, and our missionary leader would tell us "Someone's gotta go there. They need to know." That's passion for the lost. And his passion was contagious, for before long I, too, was seeing the task as something bigger than I had ever imagined, but also as something doable, especially with awesome workers like Loren and Karen Dickey and Adam Elliot. That emotion snowballed up through the rest of my break and into Maryland, until yesterday. Yesterday, I travelled to Baltimore. There, amongst the harbor and all the tourist attractions, I was crushed by the shear amount of people there - and the fact that a good portion of them are lost. How do we reach them? I don't even work in Baltimore; I work in Pasadena! And even there, it looks as though our efforts are barely making a dent for the kingdom. Despair and depression set in (believe me, it's nasty stuff!). But today, God reminded me that He is still soverign, and that YES, the task is bigger than we can comprehend, but it is smaller than He, and that is what matters. Today, I got to know Jenny, the family life director at New Hope Community Church. Jenny is amazing. She just got back from a mission trip to Indonesia, and is currently attending seminary. As we all talked about God's vision to see us go out, I also remembered a sermon I've been studying by louie Giglio on the Unthinkable Endeavor (missions). God IS glorious, and His purposes WILL be accomplished. We just have to wait and see, and be amazed (Habakkuk 1:5) - for God IS doing something that I can't grasp yet. But that's okay. Really.