Ever since I was a little girl I knew I was different.
Lately people have been encouraging me with my uniqueness, what that means I am
not really sure. Before I loved Jesus I spent my entire life trying to find my
purpose in life, now I have learned that simply living life, loving God and
letting God love me fulfills my purpose here on earth. He is satisfied with my
just being in love with Him with every part of my heart. (even though I am
still learning how to do this and probably will always continue to learn how to
be more intimate with Him). The great thing about God is that He chooses to
blow us away with the things, opportunities and callings He gives us. My
opportunity of the season happens to be the World Race, spending the month in
the Philippines. It happens to be being the HANDS and feet of Jesus.
I
realize that my only real job is to allow myself to be the best manifestation
of Jesus that I possibly can be. I do this by loving God, allowing myself to be
Loved, walking as redeemed and allowing the Holy Spirit to guide and move
through me. When you show up anywhere, when we change our position in life and
are surrounded with people, whether it is from one country or the next like it
is for me here on the race, or it is from your living room to the grocery
store, it is in fact an opportunity for us as Christ followers to change the
atmosphere, because Christ is in us and we carry authority over darkness. It is
also an opportunity for us to bring healing, freedom and hope to the people of
our world, given to us by God because He loves us, and he loves everyone else
just as much.
Some
special moments that I have gotten to experience is visiting a dying woman,
comforting her in prayer and giving her medicine to ease the pain. Hugging her
daughter and letting her know she is strong even though everything seems so
hard. Praying for countless children because they have an eye infection and no
medicine… trusting and then seeing God heal them! Holding the hand of three
beautiful little girls, Sunshine, Sanjie and Angel, being pure love to them,
showing them Jesus. Helping a child color in art class. Using my hands to hand
over thousands of bowls of food to hungry people, their only meal for three
days. Teaching a child how to read and seeing them fall in love with it for the
first time. The list goes on and on.
I
am thankful for the things I am doing. I am grateful that Jesus Christ died on
the cross for me, that I have been transformed by His love and that I now carry
the love of God inside of me. I pray that I can continue to spread the love as
people would say… bringing Hope, Joy and Peace to those who are just waiting
for something more.
Now think!? What could you be using your hands to do for the
Kingdom of God. NOW GO DO IT!
(due to facebook’s new picture policy it is very difficult for me to get pictures to put up… I am working on getting a photo blog up, stick with me!!!)
