“Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
(Joh 16:32-33)
I was given this passage of scripture to read by one of our contacts in Dominican Republic. He writes to our team every other week or so. Well, I was given this scripture a few weeks ago, but didn’t know what to do with it. Last night I read it again. This time, it hit me.
“Behold, the hour is coming when you will be scattered…” Here is an example that came to mind.
Imagine a hand full of marbles.
The handful of marbles is what you know to be comfortable. (Home, friends, family, things in your circle of life that you hold dear) Then, all of a sudden, the hand drops all of the marbles. The marbles are scattered. Each marble being a different area of your life that you need to be released from. At the beginning of the World Race, we were told to let go of the things that we were holding onto in life. What was holding me from my destiny? What am I being called to? What is my destiny and why am I so afraid of it? I am trying my hardest to collect those marbles, but they are so far away.
I feel alone sometimes in this Race, but I know that Christ is with me. I know that I need to feel alone sometimes. I need to know that HE is the only one that can set me apart from the other ‘marbles’ in life. Sometimes things suck and are hard, “In the world you will have tribulation”, But, we know that the battle is won, we know that HE has “overcome the world”. As a marble, you cannot move on your own, you have to be moved by someone bigger. God is playing marbles with us and he is making us uncomfortable in a comfortable world!
