This month in Cambodia, God brought me home. Not home home to the U.S., but He brought me to what I was trying to escape at home…teaching.
I wasn’t trying to escape teaching because I hate every part of it, but I was trying to escape it because I felt trapped in it. You can’t share the Gospel with students. You can’t give them Godly counsel, even though you know it’s the only correct thing to say. When working for the government you have to keep religion out of their education. But being a Christian, I know that The Great Commission says to do the opposite. “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 18 and 19).
How am I supposed to do this, when I get fired from my job trying? When first presented with this problem, I came to the conclusion that you don’t. So, I decided to go on The World Race. This gave me an opportunity to live out The Great Commission and try out different types of ministry to see how God has gifted me.
So far, the World Race has lived up to my expectations and done so much more. I have never shared the Gospel more times in my life and I have tried out at least ten different types of ministry and counting. During the last 5 months, God has taught me how to effectively share the Gospel and what it looks like to do ALL the ministry things. However, this month I have been teaching at Shalom International School. It’s not a Christian school and I can’t share the Gospel here. It’s exactly like home. It’s here that I’ve realized something else; He’s taught me what it looks like to love people into seeing the Gospel.
The first things God commands us says, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” (Matthew 22:37) and the second commandment says, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:39). Ironically, it doesn’t say to only get a job where it’s fine to share the Gospel with your mouth. It says to constantly be sharing the Gospel with our actions, because the whole point of the Gospel is love, right?
God loved us, so He sent His Son, who loved us. And then He died because He loved us. And now He forgives and saves us because He loves us. God created love, so if you love someone like He does aren’t you showing them Christ? His love is so much different, so much better than what the world calls “love.” People can see the difference. I know because I saw the difference before I became saved and I wanted it.
This month, God has redeemed teaching for me. I don’t know if I will end up teaching when I get home. I don’t know if that’s what God has for me. But I now see that the door isn’t closed. Will it be closed one day? Maybe. But it would be because God had something different for me, not because I can’t share the Gospel there.
God brought me into what life could look like at home. He’s been doing this for the past 5 months, really. This month maybe a little more so than the others, though. He brought me home so I could see the plans He has in the education system. So I could see the good when the world has done its best to hide it.
Financial Update: I am currently at $11,505 and I need to have $16, 277 by January 1st. I’m so close! We can do it! Please consider sharing what I’m doing on the World Race with family and friends and/or donating so I can continue sharing the Gospel.
