"In between"

Now that is one place I don't like to be..
When we've set off for Kisoro from Namirembe and we are only in Lyantonde with about 8 hours to go..
When I have just started a ward round and the ward is crammed with a gazillion patients..
When you have just sat down in a salon and the lady is plaiting braids- the smallest size..
When you have just laid the foundation for the house and the building is yet to take shape...
Its that place after the excitement of beginning, when the reality of the task ahead really hits.

Recently, I was at a get together to welcome the new students. My classmates were a bit surprised that I am a fresher like them cause I was talking about how I can't wait to finish! I don't like jooouuuurneeeys. I like to get to the destination! Me I want to be a public health specialist!! Naye, there is no way of dodging the 'in between'. The place where all the work has to be done before the reward of completion.

Jesus was in the 'in between' in the garden of Gethsemane. He was heavy and he cried out to God to take away the cup of suffering. In Mtt 26: 42, He says something interesting:
“My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done.”

I think I had forgotten that it wasn't easy for Jesus to die. It wasn't easy for Him to go through the excruciating pain that he knew awaited. It wasn't the easy path that He chose but He still went through with it. He went through with it. Some of you might think that it was easy because He knew that He would resurrect. He still had to go through the dying part.. The only way that cup was going away was if He drank it.

Thank You Lord for paying the price for my freedom even though it really cost You. Help me to remember that just because something feels hard for me to do and I may struggle, it does not mean that I should not do it. Help me to trust You in the difficulties and not be one that only takes the easy way out.

Do the work :-)