Matt Resources

• Wisdom – I always had plenty of brains, but my timing and delivery was awful. Essentially, I lacked wisdom and found myself playing ping-pong between legalism and living in license. Only place where that pure wisdom can come from is God.

The Bible is filled with seeming paradoxes but there is one recurring theme. God’s strength is revealed most in our weakness. In a previous post I discussed what I have control over and what is out of control and found the answer to the first to be “very little” and the second to be “quite a bit”.

At first glance that doesn’t seem like an auspicious beginning to the new year and some would say, “Matt, take it easy on yourself – you just have to be more positive about change.” And that is partly correct because I should. God says that he will continue the good work he began in us until the end of time. However, it is God that will bring this healing and change – not me.

We’re in the midst of a pretty solid recession here in the US and the effects have reached around the world to some degree, but one place where the job market has always been awful is Africa. Even our worst recession doesn’t compare to the lack of the average African nations’ economic prospects. Basically no hope there except for God.

So, let’s say we lived in a nation with practically no infrastructure and no capital to build one, how would we get a job?

Fortunately, God gave us the internet. So long as someone knows the language of a highly-developed nation (e.g. English, French, German), has an internet connection, and a computer, it doesn’t really matter where you live.