“How many people are ready to sacrifice but not ready to obey?” – Tim Ross.
I’ve been in a place where I was willing to sacrifice everything: my job, my education, my future, even Gods calling in my life, for that one thing, my dream. My dream that I thought was Gods desire and will for my life.
I was willing to give these things up, but I wasn’t willing to be obedient to the things that God had already called me to do.
God wasn’t calling me to sacrifice, He was calling me to obey Him and to walk in alignment into the direction He was taking me.
I was not ready to align my own desires with God’s will.
As I’ve been walking this past year in furthering my relationship with The Lord, He has exposed sin in my life and a lack of sacrifice and obedience to what God’s actually calling me to do.
As I did my application for the World Race, I remember thinking, “Jesus, is this really what you want? Am I really equipped; I’ve NEVER even been on a mission trip?” I waited 2 weeks to hear back and within that week I came to a point of disbelief. I just felt discouraged about the choice I made in applying.
As I was praying, I was yapping to God and telling him (yeah I was telling him!) “I am not going to commit to World Race because I had other plans(marriage) in mind for myself.” In short, the Lord removed that idol, those plans, and that relationship the very next day because He knew it’s what I needed to do in order to be obedient to Him. I was valuing my relationship with this guy more importantly than my relationship with God. I was allowing other things to get in the way of what Jesus was calling me to do.
Within 3 days, I received a phone call saying I had been accepted into the World Race. This had been confirmation of what I had been praying about just 3 days before. Im so excited to begin this new chapter in my life and watch how The Lord uses me to further His Kingdom.
