The past three months have been many things:
Amazing
Life Changing
Difficult
Breathtaking
Crushing
Indescribable
Reassuring
And so much more…
- God has shown me and brought me to a place of healing.
- He’s whispered Truth’s about who I am in His eyes.
- He’s wrecked my world and begun to build me back up.
- He’s taken my desires and either burnt them into the ground or set them as a foundation for His will.
- He’s given me the opportunity to live FULLY ALIVE!
- He’s let me hold orphans.
- He’s let me pray over the broken hearted and in turn allowed me to be broken myself.
Each day that passes is hard, but as the Navy Seals say, “The only easy day was yesterday!” How true this statement is for those who follow Christ. We’re promised hardship, troubles, and to be hated by the world in return for an abundant life made so by His never-ending love.
Before I started the Race I had expectations of how daily life would go. I thought we would be constantly being radical people doing radical things in desperate places. I don’t know if I have ever been more WRONG! – but wrong in a good way! You see I am a radical person surrounded by radical people. I am doing radical things in the places I am at. And while physically I might be in what many U.S. citizens would call a desperate place both physically and spiritually, I am the one who is desperate!
I’m desperate for God and not in a cheesy way, but in a real way. I am in a desperate situation as I try every single day to battle myself and let the Lord take over and kill the person my flesh has created so that I will become the man God has called me to be. With each day that passes I grow closer to the goal that I will never fully reach on my own or in this life, but in that I still find hope. Why? Because if yesterday is the only “easy” day I’ll encounter that means that I need God here and now to help me with everything that the day will bring me.
For those of you who have read my previous blog “Deeper Things” I can reassure you by saying that God has definitely stuck me in a “can” and it’s the best place I’ve been in my entire life. I’m growing with my team, experiencing God in the people I meet on the street and in ministry, and am able to focus on the present and be comfortable with it.
So to the rest of this day and the days to come I say this: “BRING IT ON GOD!"
