We are finally in India after some of the craziest travel I have ever experienced!
We had a 12 hour plane ride from D.C. that was the nicest airplane I’ve ever been on! Each seat had its on TV and tons of movies to choose from! I was a happy girl between watching great movies and sleeping peacefully!
Then we had to run to our next flight, which was a 5 hour flight and then we had a 10 hour lay over in an Indian airport. That was the first time I actually sat down and processed everything, and let me tell you, it wasn’t pretty. I cried off and on during the entire wait and was seriously asking God why in the world I was there! I considered just giving up. I thought I had prepared for this lifestyle and what the World Race would feel like, but I could not have been more off!
I was sitting there feeling so inadequate and so missing home and everyone I love. I felt so out of place and wanted to be home so desparately. I was able to dig in the Word during that time and God just kept reminding me that He is here. I have never needed His presence in such a deep way in all my life. I just kept reading over and over again that His love for me is so deep and that He is with me always.
Through that process, He was showing me how unsurrendered my life is. I like to think I live a life fully surrendered to Chirst, but in all reality, I seek my comfort and happiness above all. My life was never meant to look like that! God kept whispering to me about how Jesus must have felt for His 33 years on Earth. Talk about surrender! He is God, but out of His love for us, He came down to Earth to become a human. He was used to having all of the capabilities of God, but was instead living with all of the human limitations we have. Can you imagine how uncomfortable and awkward that was for Him?
But He still did it. And because of His incredible, life giving sacrifice, I can do the same. I have the privilege of doing the same.
God kept bringing to mind the song “God of this City”. I’ve always loved that song, but never had such a grand connection to it as I do now. God is the God of this city that I am in right now. He is the same God that He is in Duluth, Georgia and Rome, Georgia. He is good and worthy of all praise! As I look into the eyes of these people and look around this town, I find such comfort in the face that He is God over everything I see and everything I will see!
Tomorrow, we leave for a village where will be mainly doing door to door evangelism and preaching. Please be praying for my team and I! This is far out of most of our comfort zones and we can only do this with the Lord’s strength! He is the only one who can give us the perfect words to say and open hearts to hear the Gospel!
Please pray for me as I struggle through this transition to living this lifestyle. I had no idea it would be such a challenge for me, but I think that shows why it’s so important I am here! Please pray for peace and God’s love to be so apparent even in such a dark place!
