So I am convinced that if anyone in their right mind was to sit down and go through an interview process with all the girls on my team, there is no way that we all would have been put together!! After the interview they would have come to acknowledge everybody’s strengths and weakness, likes and dislikes, and all the different place that people were in their faith, a right minded person would have laughed and said, “There is no way that these girls will even make it through a year with each other!”, but that’s the thing . . . the staff who represent the world race are not in their RIGHT MINDS, they’re in the mindset of GOD.
If you look all throughout scripture I think many of us could agree on the fact that we do not worship a God who always has a “correct thinking” according to this world. We’re talking about a God who told Abraham to go and kill his only son. Who chose to put Jonah in the belly of a fish to punish him, and who told Moses to go on top of a mountain and not eat or drink anything for 40 days. According to this world you would have to be pretty dang out of your mind to say or follow through with any of these things, let alone actually believe that any of them were even possible, but I feel like some of us forget that ALL things are possible with God! For a miracle you need difficulty, but for an extreme miracle you need impossibility. When I look at my team it really proves to me that God can take the most impossible thing and make it in to the most beautiful thing ever!
A Little back ground about my team
My team and I have a time called feedback. Feedback is a time when we come together every single day and build each other up by speaking life and truth into one another. We also give constructive feedback to call one another out and then up into Gods presence and goodness. In the past some of our feedback sessions have been fruitless, dry, and very surface level. If any of you know me at all you would know that surfaced level stuff is not me whatsoever!
I struggled with the fact that some of us did not want to go deep as I wanted to or were not as open as I wanted to be. I thought to myself, “God I can’t do this all year and if I am going to have to I see no point in being here,” but God had a different plan. Throughout the month I saw the Holy Spirit begin to work in my team, but it was not in the way I thought he would work- it was even better!! I thought that everyone in the group would have to become like me to get to my level, but that was not the case at all. They had to become like Christ to get to the level God wanted us. I soon came to see that just because I was the leader of the group that did not mean it was about me and the vision I had for our group. If anything, I found out that because I was the leader I was the first one that had to die to my own wants and desires and quickly pick up God’s desires.
God showed me that my team and I were at different places in our faith and we had to learn how to accept everyone where they were. He showed me that he could still use all the differences in our lives and have them complement each other for his glory!
As I was coming out of one of our feedbacks for the day I started thinking about how AMAZING our time had been together! It blew my mind how far we had come in just a month, how much love was shown for people, and how deep in Jesus we were able to get with each other. People’s hearts were really starting to get exposed to the team and even though it was hard on some days people still pushed past the pain and let the team see their true colors. All of a sudden I heard the Lord say to me, “Casey- what if I put your team together for the sole fact of wanting to show you that I can take any group of people- no matter the background, no matter the personality, and allow them to come together and shine for my glory. What if I’m a God who loves to have fun and take the impossible and make it possible!” I see more and more everyday why God has put these five girls in my life. They have broken me, sharpened me, carried me, stretched me, strengthened me, laughed with me, cried with me, put up with me and so much more! God knew just what he was doing even when I could not see it. I thank God for these girls all the time because they are truly changing my life for the better.
