I have been home from the World Race for one month. Throughout the course of this month I have recounted ministries that I have worked with. I have told people the things that I “did” overseas. I have told funny stories and showed videos. And for the last the month I have been trying to sit and quiet myself long enough to truly answer the question: What did the World Race truly accomplish in my life?
I feel like the many answers to that simple question could fill a bottomless pit to overflowing. It was no small thing(s), what God did in my life through the World Race, but tonight I just want to highlight ONE of those things.
God Calling:
Life is really consciousness of Me. Have no fear. A very beautiful future lies before you. Let it be a new life, a new existence, in which in every single happening, event, plan, you are conscious of Me. “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” Get this ever-consciousness and you have Eternal Life- the Life of the Ages. Be in all things led by the Spirit of God and trust Me in all. And the consciousness of Me must bring Joy. Give Me not only trust but gladness.
“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” Romans 8:14.
So what did the World Race truly do in me, for me, through me?
It introduced me to a life continuously lived alongside the Spirit of God.
Now I can say, I walk with God and I talk with God. I hear from God and he speaks to me often.
Before the World Race, I was a Christian. I did all the things that good Christians do. I went on short term mission trips, I read my Bible (though not as much as I delight to now), I went to church every Sunday, I only cursed occasionally, I had stopped making out with boys at random and really cleaned myself up, I fed the poor once a month, I led Bible studies and encouraged my girl friends to live for God. . . . If I were still a Brownie Scout, and if there was such a thing, then I would probably have a few “Christian patches” sewn on my Brownie vest. BUT I didn’t delight myself in God often. Usually, my quiet time was pushed to the end of the day by my busy schedule. Usually my prayer time consisted of listless words whispered as I drifted off to sleep.
NOW my heart aches when I do not get to spend one on one time with the Lord. Now I speak to Him continually throughout my day. Now I make time to sit quietly and listen to His voice because what He has to say to me is not only important it is imperative; my life line. Now I have a keen awareness of His Presence with me every minute of the day. Now I have a keen awareness of His delight in me. I am filled with all the fullness of God. I am never without love; never without strength; never without joy; never without peace and assurance.
The World Race opened up to me a life lived as led by the Spirit of God. And I testify to the truth of what the authors of God Calling say; and what the Bible says:
“And this is LIFE ETERNAL, that they might know thee, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”
I have discovered eternal life on earth.
