God is showing and teaching me things
every single day
He is alive and present with us
every single day
He shows His love to us
every single day
Sometimes we just need to sit back and listen for Him.
So far in my race, God has been talking to me over and over about control. I like to be in control of my life. I like to know exactly what is going on. I want to know what countries we are going to, when we are going, and what we are doing in each place. I stress out trying to figure out exactly what is going to happen: where I need to be when, what I need to do to accomplish my goals. God keeps telling me over and over to let it go. Leave it to Him. He is in control of my life and His ways are better than my ways. He knows what is going to happen, He’s got it all under control, and ultimately specifics in my life don’t matter.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end
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The other night, I was playing the Settlers of Catan.
(If you are a board game player, it is excellent- you should play it)
It was a friends turn and he was going to cut me off- block me from being able to get in a winning position.
My plan was to continue building roads- expanding my empire- but, I took into account that he might block me, so I had a plan B: to build a settlement in a certain place if he blocked me.
(I guess the way to explain this for someone that doesn’t know the game is that I had a plan, but if that plan was interrupted, I had a back up plan)
Well, on his turn, he decided to block me. He was going to build a road. *At that point, I acted really upset, but I had another plan anyway that would be just as good* Well, enter another friend that is more experienced at the game, and the second friend told the first friend that he should build a settlement instead of a road. If he built a settlement, I wouldn’t be able to build roads or settlements.
**Now, if my first friend built a settlement- then BOTH of my strategies were ruined**
Now, I was pretty upset for real. It was just a game, but If you know me, I’m pretty competitive.
My first friend commented something about how he liked ‘that I was making a big deal about the road, when really the settlement idea was the big deal, and when the settlement idea came out, I was actually upset’.
As I went home, I thought about that. I still have not completely processed all of it, but that is how I am in life. I have a plan (raising money for the World Race) but I have a back up plan (to earn the money myself) in case ‘I get blocked with a road’ (Don’t raise the money that I need). If that back up plan is foiled (i.e I can’t work for three weeks) I get upset.
Ultimately, this whole circumstance is about control. If the settlement was built, I wouldn’t be able to build anything. My control on the game would be gone.
God is continually showing me that I need to l need to let it go and not worry about having the control in my life. He showed it again to me through a boardgame!
What in the world! Like, the most unlikely way ever!
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