I'm going on The World Race. No, that doesn't convey enough excitement. I'm going on The World Race!!!! Closer. But still, I don't think I can really convey just how excited I am about this through words on a screen. I mean, as I'm writing this, I'm smiling, and kind of bouncing up and down like I do when I'm really excited, or when I'm eating. That sort of happy dance that you can't really contain, but you have to because you are doing something else that requires you to sit still (sort of). So basically, I am going on The World Race, and I am ready to go. I'm not ready financially, not even a little bit, and I don't have any of the stuff I will need to take. I actually feel like I haven't gotten anything done. But my heart, my heart is ready to go.
My heart is ready to be out in the world, with people I don't know, in places I've never been, in languages I don't understand, sharing God's love and the hope that comes with what Jesus Christ has done for all of us. And I'm excited to see God in those people, because they will share him with me as much as I'll share him with them.
In leaving my last job interning at a Christian Camp, one of the pastors that we worked with sent each of us off with a Bible verse or two, to help encourage us as we moved on to what was next. He shared with me Romans 10:13-15,
"For, 'Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.' How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, 'How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!'"
I feel sent, so I will go and preach. And my prayer is that when they hear the message, they will believe. That for everyone in my squad, since we are all sent, since we all have beautiful feet, that we would be able to step out in obedience and in faith that since we are sent and since we will preach, they will listen, and they will believe. And it doesn't have to be "preaching", like some big important sermon, with 5 main points and outlines and all of that. It could just be talking to them. Sharing our stories. Sharing our stories about Christ. About what He has done in us, so they can hear that He can do that in them too. Our feet are beautiful, and I can't wait to walk on those feet to wherever it is God would want me to be.
