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Isaiah 6: 8

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send?  And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

This trip is not about me. I have to continuously tell myself that. I am doing this to glorify God, my Father. Jesus gave me the authority to teach what I’ve been taught, and to bring his message to all the nations.

I am not going to convert people. It’s not my goal to persuade people to believe so they can go to heaven. That is NOT what I am called to do. Going to heaven is not what my faith is built upon, and it isn’t what I am going to tell people about.

The goal has never been to go to heaven. It is to go be with my daddy in heaven, the one who loves me unconditionally. It has, is, and will always will be about going back to him. I’ve tried long and hard to make people Christians, but that isn’t my job. Only God can move in a persons heart, and create a relationship with them. That is what a christian is! It is a relationship with God, I can’t fabricate that with people.

I have even had the audacity to make heaven the center of the gospel while witnessing. Jesus didn’t say, “I am the way the truth and the life. No one goes to heaven except through me.”

No no no, Jesus said, “I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes the FATHER except through me.”

It is all about God.

So why do I go if not to make Christians? God did call us to spread his word, but he calls us to do it in love.

Love your neighbor as yourself.

I am not always good at this, I am only human. I have to pray and ask for the love that God has for people. When I do this, it no longer becomes about me, it is about the people around me. My relationship with God feels so amazing, and I want nothing more than the people around me to feel that same relationship. I am going because I don’t know the people I am going to meet, but I feel the love of God for them in my heart. He wants them to know him, and it makes me want to know them and do everything in my power to love them

 

I am going to be completely transparent here. Part of the reason I am going on this trip is my selfish. I don’t know who I am yet. There are two things I know about myself, first is I love God, and will find who I am in him someday, and secondly, I love to make people smile and laugh.

So in recap, the three main reasons I am going to go on the World Race are:

  1. He has called me to go.

  2. I want to spread God’s love, and watch him move in peoples hearts.

  3. I want to discover who I am in Christ.