In 24 hrs I will be on a plane to Fort Lauderdale to start The World Race. I woke up this morning burdened for the people I am saying goodbye to my friends, my family, the city of St Louis. Now I didn’t feel burdened in the sense of man I know these people are going to be really sad spending a year without a person as awesome as I am. I mean I’m sure it will be hard for them, but that’s not the point.
The point is it’s not about me or what I am doing. It’s about what the Lord has done and what the Lord is doing. God uses messed up people to accomplish great things for His glory not for our glory. Not so people can look at us and say man look at that person they really got their shit together. No that’s not the point at all it’s like what Paul writes in 1 Timothy 1:15-16 “The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.”.
So right now what I am preparing to do is not for me. It’s not for my glory. It’s not about me at all. I pray if and when I start to think this trip has anything to do with me that God would humble me. I am where I am because of Christ and only because of Christ. This trip is not about me taking a year doing service or me spending a year seeing the world. All those things will happen, but this is me surrending to God and allowing him to work in me. It’s only because of the spirit’s work in me that I can go out and do what I am about to do. It’s about responding to what Christ has already done.
The World needs our response, America needs our response, our neighbors and our families need our response. That was my burden this morning . I want everyone I know to wake up. Wake up to what God is alreadying doing in your city, your house, your family and your world. My heart crys out for my friends to wake up and say just as Jacob said in Genesis 28:16“, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it”.
God is here. God is speaking. Will you Respond? I am not a missionary, because I am going overseas. Every Christian is a missionary. The world is hungry for hope and you have hope. Don’t sit in your pew and do nothing with it.
I’m not saying this in judgement whatsoever. I am saying this as someone who did nothing with it, because I didn’t believe God could use someone like me. Don’t believe the lies. You are worthy, you are beautiful, you are redeemed. Now out of that love and acceptance do something! That is my prayer this year for all my friends. I pray that God would wake you up and remind you He is in this place. Knowing that He is in this place I pray that you would respond.
