Who knows the band Lost & Found? If you don’t, check them out. Their site is www.speedwood.com. Lost & Found is a Lutheran duo who, early in their career, toured the country on bicycles playing churches and regional youth gatherings along the way.
They have a pretty cool song in he which they sing, “I want to be a new creation formed from the fingers of God’s right hand.” That’s a good line.
The realization lately is that the World Race will most likely make me a completely different person. This is a new sensation for me. In life, if nothing else, there’s always been continuity. I was ready to sell pretty much everything, and at least materially, start life after the Race, whatever that entails, from ground zero.
Later in the Lost & Found song he sings, “But if I never move the mountains, and if I never part the sea and if I never slay the giant, God do what you want with me.” I think this is the hard part.
The main theme for my Race experience so far has been striving to live my faith in such a way that I do what I and others so often say we would love to do, but never really attempt for fear of whatever may be holding us back. If I say that I am ready to be a new creation, I truly have to be ready to be made new in all aspects of myself: not just possessions and living situations, but dreams and aspirations too.
Lately I’ve felt challenged to let go of any image I have of myself after the next two years or so. Dreaming, planning, and creating realities in my head is one of my favorite pastimes. I think part of the maturing process for me leading up to this race will very often be an exercise in relinquishing control over the next step.
I want to see a generation lifted up for the glory of His name. To be a part of that reality I need to submit to God in such a way that I am hoping for nothing of my own. Which is funny because in pursuing the posture required to ride the wave of God’s will and desire, a posture filled only with His plan for my life, I often feel I need to do so much planning myself.
As I write letters, read books, and delve into study leading up to the World Race I need to remember that none of it is for my glory or renown, but only for the magnification of the greatness of our God. All the prayer and planning that comprise my preparation are nothing compared to the intricate plan laid out for me as time was spoken into existence by the God we worship on Sunday morning.
As I uncover the beautiful face God is molding in the mirror pray that I would always assume the posture of the Supplicant to His Provider, the Sinner to His Savior, and the Captive to His Spirit. Let my current discomfort in the future unknown serve as the fire through which I must pass to be the New Creation that was laid in front of me when time began.
