As I am sitting here in he airplane heading to Georgia for World Race training camp, trying to sleep while there's conversations going on around me, babies crying, and he loud airplane noise. Instead of sleeping I think back on the days before feeling stressed, anxious and just not in a place where I even want to think about World race, even talk about it to anyone, or pack for training camp. For flights I usually get nervous beforehand that I may miss my flight, have troubles in security, have issues with check in. Then I settle down once I sit down in my plane seat.
My bag was only 25 lbs, so why do I feel like I still over packed. I have this feeling that I will be pretty bringing even less items on the World race. I will be ministering to people who have absolutely nothing. The less I have of my belongings the more I can really get a glimpse of how life is year after year. Because let's be real what is really necessary to do the Lord's work.
Through this journey I've let go of so much, so what that one favorite shirt, or that pretty dress going to make a difference. I am already leaving my comfortable life in America, leaving my family and friends, so I think leaving allot of my belongings and just selling it all is pretty easy compared to most things that I will be leaving. When I have everything that I supposedly think I need it's harder to rely on God for everything.
Learning to let go of my own belongings because ultimately it's not even mine to begin with, everything belongs to God, as hard or easy it may seem some days to sell all my belongings and devote the next 11 months serving the Almighty God through great experiences in different countries.
What are you doing to further the Kingdom of God?
It may not look like quitting your job, selling all your belongings and traveling the world to do missions for a year, but it may look more like spreading Christ love in your work place, home, family, wherever God has you for a specific reason. He will use you as long as you have a willing heart to listen and act on it.
God uses ordinary people to do extrodinary things. He has called me to go, I, Laura Quam. The one at age 7 who wanted to be a zoo keeper her whole entire life. The one at age 13 who wanted to be a dolphin trainer her whole entire life, the one at age 19 who God broke me heart for what breaks his- sex trafficking, at age 20 who was diagnosed with Malaria even before getting my first cavity. and at age 21 I'm preparing to go out into 11 countries in 11 months to be the hands and feet of Christ. It's truly beautiful. Shows that God has bigger plans than what we have for ourselves.
1. Abandom your comfort zone 2. Embrace your brokenness 3. depend on God
