Why Are You Here?

Day 7 In The Holy Land

Why are you here? That’s the question Pastor Sieg Johnson asked our tour group early on in our Holy Land Trip. We were on a boat cruise on The Sea Of Galilee at the time. Then, he asked us the same question again on the last day of our tour in The Garden Tomb.

Funny story, Sieg will repeat his main point a few times during a devotional or sermon (like most pastors). So, right as he said to us again, “Why are you here?,” two teenage girls who were not with our group came around the corner and heard him. They immediately turned around and headed back the way they came as Sieg tried to say, “Oh, I wasn’t talking to you! Sorry!” Haha!

I suppose there could be as many answers to that question as there were people in our group. Perhaps the answer could be to feel closer to God, to learn more about the land of Jesus, to have the Bible come alive for me, or maybe even, my spouse made me come. I can tell you it’s not for a relaxing vacation because there’s very little of that!

For me I found in most of my prayer time in Israel, I thought about light. The Light Of The World came and lived in this land. Now, it is up to us to carry that light to others. The temple is destroyed, but now we are The Temple. As neat as it was to see the place where Jesus was born, where he lived and died, and rose again, God doesn’t want us to worship a place. He wants us to carry his light from that place to everyone we meet. I think that’s why I was there. Plus, I could eat all the dates, olives, and hummus I wanted. Yum!

On the last day of touring (Day 7) we visited what is left of The Temple in Jerusalem, both above and underground. And I’ll tell you about the one time I did get a little nervous being in a foreign land. It’s all right here on my Facebook page. Just click the link below.

https://www.facebook.com/Melinda-Mayo-KATV-229461220418343/