Seek, and You Will Find!
Flash back to four months ago. What was my life like? What was my perspective in life? I was pondering earlier today on how, in less than three months in The World Race, God has taught and changed me in many aspects. It has been so fun to be taught by God that I didn’t even realized about the changes until last night, when I got to communicate with one of my beloved people from my youth group back home. In order to measure any changes you have to put it to the test.
So what are some aspects that I have changed?
1. Dealing with God-chosen community. I clearly didn’t choose these jokers. In the past I had my struggles with being part of large groups. That’s including all my school years. I always felt awkward and felt like I never connected with any group as a whole. I was the person that always had no more than three friends and I was totally ok and comfortable with it. Then God puts me on a team of seven and a squad of fifty. Go back in time and ask me a year ago about this matter and my respond would have been: UGH!!! Three months into it and I’m glad that I let God take care of things and that I trust Him. The ride hasn’t been perfect but I totally love these people. They have totally shown me throughout this that I belong here and I belong with them.
2. Loving and treating everyone I encounter as my brothers and sisters in Christ. During the very first month, as some of y’all have read on past blog posts, we were in the streets loving and assisting people from the streets. This includes alcoholics, drug addicts, homeless, extremely poor people. Having that teaching during the first month set the tone on how God wants me to love my fellow brothers and sisters not just during the next year, but through my whole lifetime.
3. Not trying to resolve people’s problem all the time but actually point them to God and let them be guided by God. This is where I noticed my changes. Before, while in the U.S., I wouldn’t mind listening to people’s problems (and I still don’t) but I would also try to be their problem solver and that’s where mistakes sometimes were made. I took pride in helping people even with problems that wouldn’t make sense for me to help with because I had no knowledge on the matter. Yesterday, as someone from my youth group was communicating with me about some issues that were getting to them, I was giving them some advice, but more importantly I was pointing this person to put everything in God’s hand and take life with grace. There’s no problem in being a mentor, it is just better when the mentor has an even better mentor to back him/her up. The past months I have learned to consult even more with my Beloved Mentor and it’s been such a blessing. I’m ready to pass it forward and be a even better mentor.
Beloved and faithful readers, it’s not a full three months into this journey and God has done a lot of amazing things. If this is just three months, then in eleven months I will be totally mind blown and so will y’all!
Now in order to complete this journey not only my willing and open heart is required. I also need to be financially funded. With a deadline coming next month, by which I need to have raised $11,000 in order to continue serving on the World Race, I’m short by almost $3,000. I’m writing this blog not to just keep you updated on all the amazing things God has done, but also to cordially ask you all for help so I can keep carry on in this journey. I know God has more for me to learn and more teachings for me to pass forward. I hope that you will prayerfully consider helping fund me so that I am able to stay on the Race.
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