I’m
listening to a song right now called “To The Very End” by Will Regan and The
United Pursuit band. I’m listening to it, and there is a verse and it says
“Don’t give up, don’t let go, don’t lose trust, don’t lose
hope”
As I
have been listening to this I have been thinking about how this is the End. My
ministry on this race after 11 months ends in 1 day. I leave Bangalore and
travel to meet the squad in Delhi and three days after that I’m on plane headed
home. The End has come to my trip, to my
seeing new countries and meeting new people, I have been a part of 11 different
cultures 11 different communities and 11 different ministries. Here at the end
of it all I realize how it is just the beginning of everything.
Anyone
can say that they went on a trip that shaped who they were; people can say I
saw God here and it changed my life. Praise God for that, but I have realized
that is not where this trip ends. Yes God has transformed me to a Man who I
only imagined I could become. It has shown me things and broken chains off of
me that I have held onto my entire life. But this trip will be for nothing if I
let those changes stop here and now. If I let this new knowledge this new found
trust and this new hope in God end here then what is the point of this. This
trip doesn’t just show you who you can be, it gives you the opportunity to meet
that person and face your sins and realize that you have the victory in God to
overcome them.
This
trip prepares you for what is next in your life whatever it may be, yes the
Race is only 11 months long but that is not the end. Its 11 months of
transformation and brokenness, its change and victory. That doesn’t stop in
your life just because you’re living in the states again. It challenges you to
continue this change while bringing your family and friends in to that change
with you. Showing them what Christ has done in you, and what Christ has done
through you.
I DARE
YOU who read this to open your mind to the thought that maybe you need some
transformation in your life. I DARE the churches who read this that maybe you
need a revival in your church. If we get to the point where we feel the closest
to God and then begin to coast in that, there is no point in you ever trying to
get close to him. You are never close enough, you can never have enough of him,
and you can never worship or praise his name enough. So then what would I be
doing if I thought everything I learned was ending? I’m on a trip that didn’t
prepare me for 11 months of being a missionary. I’m on a trip that prepared me
to be a disciple of God for the rest of my Life. I DARE you to question if you
are coasting or if you are pursuing God with everything you have with a
reckless abandon. Are you pursuing God?
To all
future and current racers who come upon this, know that you’re not about to
embark upon a trip that is going to be life altering then stop. You have just
signed up to be on the front lines for Christ where ever he is calling you for
the rest of your lives.
“DON’T
GIVE UP, DON’T LET GO, DON’T LOSE TRUST, DON’T LOSE HOPE”
This race is not
over it has taken 11 months to start, I Dare you to be open to the challenge
that you are not where Christ wants you. I DARE you to shake the world around
you with the Love and Power of Christ, and I DARE YOU to follow his every word
regardless of where it leads you.
