Today while mowing the lawn I was thinking about how The Lord has blessed me this year of 2009. I am using this post to share some stories about these blessings in my life, and how they are continually shaping me each and every day.
At the beginning of this year I felt The Lord leading me to the World Race as the next big step in my life. I have only ever experienced camp and children/youth ministry and urban missions. I have been blessed, as I am participating in the World Race this coming January. I honestly have gone through the whole roll of emotions. Some have been:
EXCITED like when I was accepted to The World Race.
ON EDGE like the support raising process and leaving it in God’s hands. Before I thought “Hey, it’ll be easy to give it all to God”. Now I know giving it all over to God is quite hard, but it’s all part of process. Rome wasn’t built in a day.
BROKEN like having to rid myself of routine. Not be me focused, but instead, He focused.
God has also helped me with my time management. Though more recent, God called me out on the amount of time I spent playing video games and on the computer. Since selling those things that were affecting my relationship with Christ, I have been working much harder at keeping a He focused relationship. I didn’t sell the things I did for self benefit, I sold them to show the change that has happened within me the past few months. What follows is a dream I had about a week ago… It may seem “crazy”, or “not possible” but I truly believe it was God sent, as the night I had it, I asked God what he needed me to do right now in my life, before the race.
Myself along with 6 other people (I took it they were also racers) were all locked in a room. It was filled with 4 bunk beds, a light bulb hanging from the ceiling, and everybody’s possessions. The room was dreary, and it smelt musty. We were all under the understanding, that we all needed to get rid of a minimum of one possession before we were allowed to exit the room. Everybody seemed to choose their one thing quite some time before I did. It took me what felt like months to finally choose my video games. It was amazing… It seemed to take as much time as I had spent investing in them for the past year. I knew this was truly God showing me how I was being drawn away from Him by an unhealthy video game habit.
Yet another blessing The Lord provided me with.
I a truly blessed that God has been presenting Himself to me, and I have been driven to notice it.
The last great blessing I would like to share is about the witnessing that I have been able to do since joining the World Race team. I have been in quite a few talks with employees at my workplace, customers at the workplace, a salesman at Futureshop, people that I end up meeting nowhere specific, old school friends. It isn’t that I was unable to witness before, but I have been so excited about the race, that I have an urge to tell everyone. Old school mates ask what I am up to, and I jump on the opportunity to tell them exactly what God is doing around the world and in my life. My 30 second testimony.
I am very excited right now, and really felt like I needed to share how God has changed my life so far this year. I pray that others see a change in my life, and that God can be seen at work in my life.
As a side. In one hour (EST) it will be 4 months until Christmas! Just and FYI.
Chris Cave
