Tonight, I’m packing for the World Race. I’ve been preparing for awhile now, but not a thing has gone into the pack for the final bon voyage. We launch this Saturday.
One of my favorite parts of a movie is the preparation sequence set to some really powerful, moving music. (an upbeat tempo, that gets your pulse beating quicker, your mind cheering on the character getting ready for a fight, or a test, or a defense, or some sort of duel whether wits or muscle or both).
Preparation in life isn’t like that. It doesn’t go that fast (or perhaps it goes entirely too fast, I feel a bit like a squirrel frantically gathering all my nuts together). Preparation also doesn’t go that smoothly (there aren’t interruptions in the soundtrack for a boo boo, a dirty diaper, backorders, a phone call that delays the process, sickness). And there certainly isn’t background music. At least it all doesn’t get done with one song.
We need a perpetual DJ going on here.
Inner iPod – pump it up!
The packing list is long – I mean, really, packing for a year. But I confess, I have been thinking of my comfort a little too much. What are my needs in the coming year? Clothing, medicine, gadgets, etc. I need to stay healthy and strong, yep. But how do I prepare for what lies ahead, when it is unknown. When our task and ministry of each country is unknown.
In truth, all of us face the day looking out into the unknown. And how do we go on, how do we step?
Trust.
Like Indiana Jones stepping out in trust for a pathway to walk across, we trust, we step, we risk, we have faith – by the mercy of Jesus.
Trust God. Trust that He is leading me through each day, and now each hour – ONE at a time – preparing my heart, mind and body for what is ahead, uniting my heart with His and with my team that we would be One as Jesus and the Father are One.
