Its 1:45 in the morning as I right this, running on about 6 cups of expresso… so I apologize if I’m a little all over the place. Today we traveled from Waikanai, NZ on the south side of the north island to Auckland, NZ on the north side of the island. Took about 10 hours or so. We are now staying at New Lynn Bible Chapel in Auckland for a few hours before we go to the airport to travel to brisbane, Australia. I count that we will have been on 6 different vehicles, be it cars, buses or airplanes, by the time we get to where we will be staying in Brisbane tomorrow night. This is the World Race, this is how we get to where we’re going to further the Kingdom. I love it.
A few weeks ago my team began to hear some possibilities as to what we might be doing in Australia. All signs at that time pointed toward the bush, working with aborigine youth. “This is where it gets a little rough”, I thought. Living in tents, probably few or no showers or laundry facilities, hot, sticky, messy. But, again, this is the World Race, we do hot sticky messy. Things didn’t work out the way we thought they would. Many teams are be going to the bush, but my team is going to… the beach. Byron Bay, a few hours south of Brisbane, is to be our home for a month. We would also be living in tents, but we’d be living in tents in civilization to some degree. We have no local contact, our team and a few others from each squad will be on our own to determine the types of ministry we want to dive in to. Much more responsibility to take things into our own hands and run with it, but slightly more comfortable living. But wait a second… I thought we were supposed to be doing hot sticky messy? I’m not complaining but I feel a little guilty doing beach ministry while most the other teams are roughing it in the bush.
However, beyond the typical hot, sticky, messiness that the World Race often is, there is a much more important component that should define us more than any other: trusting that God knows what He is doing.
Ok God, I’ll make the sacrifice and go to the beach… if I have to.
(Written on January 30th, 2010)
