If you had asked me six months ago what I was going to do after graduation, I would have said something along the lines of “I’m going to do everything possible to not move back in with my parents and I’m hopefully going to get a job working in corporate PR; specifically NASCAR.
A good dream right?
It’s funny how God takes your plans and tears them in half as He puts together His own plan for you. Never in a thousand years would I have thought I would be getting ready to go into ministry. MISSIONS at that..
But here I am.
At the beginning of my final semester here at Lee University, I felt like God was telling me to get prepared for where He was taking me. At first I didn’t know where that was. I just knew it was going to be somewhere insane and that really nothing I did would fully prepare me when He finally told me where I was going: on the World Race.
For those of you reading who don’t know what the World Race is, it’s an eleven-month-long missions trip that goes to a different country every month. They call it the 11-n-11. Pretty intense.
At first, I was in awe that God would consider me, of all the people on the planet, to be a part of this amazing ministry. Then I got super pumped. All I’ve ever really wanted to do (well ever since I got over my fear of flying (which was only two years ago..)) was travel. I want to see the earth that God created. And now I’m getting to do that! How amazing, right?! Then came the doubt, the fear, the anxiety… It’s going to cost me over 16 THOUSAND dollars…what the what? I’m sorry but I actually live on Ramen noodles, soooo 16 grand isn’t happening..
BUT
“For with God, NOTHING is impossible”!
I read a quote from a book by Mark Batterson that read “God wants you to get where God wants you to go, MORE than you want to get where God wants you to go”. This quote reminded me that if this is truly where God has called me to be this coming year, which I 100% believe He has, He is going to provide every penny necessary for this trip. One of my fellow squad mates put it in a good perspective. She said “It is not a question of, “Can He do it?” or, “Will He do it?” but “Will we do it?” Will we trust Him? Will we believe that He will give what we’ve asked?”
All I can do is be obedient to what God has asked of me. It’s a high calling, and it comes with a lot of responsibility, and it’s going to require a lot of faith. So I’m just going to trust Him, and believe that He knows what He’s doing.
