Abandoned babies, starving children, hopeless women, and desperate men; a world most of us have been so fortunate we couldn’t even imagine. In my last blog I revealed some of my more pleasurable desires and expectations for the World Race. Now it is time to dig deeper into my soon to be reality.
I expect to leave my life, my abundant life, as I know it in exchange for seeing and experiencing things that will break my heart each and every day. I expect to see babies who have never experienced love. Children that don’t know when their next meal will be. Women trapped in human trafficking with no hope for a better life. Men who are so desperate to provide they would do anything it takes to survive. People who are so incredibly poor it makes all Americans even the ones living in poverty look like millionaires. I expect to feel broken and sadness like never before after seeing such hardship. I expect to get sick, really sick! I expect to feel exhausted and hungry. I expect to get dirty and most likely get lice at least a few times. I know there will be times I am unbelievably homesick and question what in the world am I doing here. I expect to feel doubt, feel defeated and powerless however I expect that I will overcome all of these rough circumstances because I know God will overwhelm me with His presence. I know He will use all of these heart breaking and scary times to truly show his majesty and just how great His ruthless, never ending love is for His children. I expect to see Him provide and give strength to my team and I and heal and bring hope to the people we will be serving.
This may sound kind of crazy but I want all of it! I don’t want to be the “Beach Team”, I want to be the “Bush Team”. I don’t want to be comfortable, I want to be stretched as far as God knows I can handle. I want to have my world rocked and turned upside down. I want to be so shaken and broken that only God can put me together and give me new life, truly abundant life! I want to serve God as His disciple so I can share His love and His truth with tribes and nations all over the world. I want to be used to bring new life to those we will serve through showing them just how great Jesus’ love is for us.
