The speaker this week was Scott Freeman who spoke about the Character and Nature of God. I met Scott last summer in Costa Rica while I was doing my DTS outreach. Him and his family are with the San Jose base but are doing missions in Jaco which is a small beach town here in Costa Rica. He has an awesome wife and four adorable boys. They have been in YWAM for several years and have tons of experience with Children at Risk. It was really great seeing him and his family again. Scott just has such a great style of teaching.He teaches in such a way that he keeps his listeners so alive! It's great. We also had class outside of the classroom twice this week. 
The first thing he had us do was draw a picture of how we see God. The description that came to my mind was the footprints in the sand poem. So often I think: God where are you, I am struggling, I feel so alone. He comforts me by saying "I am here. When you go through those tough things, you look back and see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you." We then wrote a list of all the characteristics of God which was an awesome way of seeing every aspect of who God is.
One thing that he talked about that I absolutely love is about how much God loves us. I have struggled with perfection so much in my life, and I subconsciously believed that God wouldn't love me as much if I wasn't perfect. In the back of my head if I ever messed up I thought that God was just looking down on me ashamed but once again this week, I was reminded that God has grace. God’s grace is so sufficient but still we are so hard on ourselves when we mess up. In reality it doesn't matter because He loves us all the same no matter what we do. This is something that many people overlook when they think about God. So many of us have no idea how loving and how much of a father heart God has. We assume He is a strict, rule-making condemner but that is not Him at all.
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