Many people come on the world race looking for direction and for God to show them why He created them. Rightfully so, because God uses the atmosphere and experiences of the World Race as a chance to discover talents, passions and desires.
But for me, God has already told me why He created me. Adoption and orphans. The two go hand in hand and I've known since the first time I stepped onto international soil that my love for the nations, for the beautiful process of adoption, and that fighting for the justice of orphans was in my blood; and more importantly that God put it there. I knew He was going to intertwine all of those passions one day, in someway that only He can see.
So I ask God, "Why show me why you created me and then not let me live it out right now?" "Why do I have this year to go 'discover' myself when you've already told me the main purpose for my existence?"
Pump the brakes he says. My purpose isn't to go to the nations, adopt or fight for orphans.
My purpose is to glorify His name.
That looks differently from person to person, and from season to season. But what He is teaching me in this season is that I can't get lost in a cause, no matter how great it is, and even if it's from Him. The only person or thing I'm supposed to get lost in is Him.
He's called me on the race as a chance to get my priorities straight. As a chance to not get lost in doing good for Him, but for seeking Him in all situations; the little, the big, the life changing and the mundane. He is there and He wants me to realize it.
As I was worshiping God in Swaziland He spoke to me concerning my prayers for orphans. He told me to stop calling them 'orphans' because that wasn't their identity. Their identity was as a son or daughter of the King. He told me that I had been focusing on earthly adoption, but there was something more important than that. Adoption into the family of God.
This revelation switches the focus from a cause to Jesus himself. Jesus loves when His children are passionate about things that break His heart, but He always wants us to come back to who placed that passion there in the first place: HIM.
"Noah did everything just as God commanded him."
-Genesis 6:22
Right now I'm learning a lot from Noah. God has spoken to me and shared glimpses of what my future holds. But right now instead of just waiting for God to say, "GO!" I am seeking Him. I am learning so much about Him and His character so that when he does say "GO!" I will be ready.
I have total faith that when I'm ready, and not a moment before or a moment too late that God will release me to step into the future that He holds for me. But for now, I'm living for the present-knowing that what He is teaching me and doing in me is preparation for the unseen.
I'm done waiting; I am embracing the now because God has me here for a reason. As you read this I encourage you stop waiting too. Ask him to redirect your focus from a cause to Him alone. As you focus on Him He will turn your season of waiting into a season of rejuvenation, of revelation and of peace in His presence.
