Warning: You may want to grab a snack before you read this.
I hate onions.
I made most of us just how much spaghetti last night. I mean de-li-cious. I made zucchini noodles and steam and perfection. And then create a beautiful tomato sauce with chopped mushrooms, fresh tomatoes reduction, sliced onions, Parmesan, and, the ever lovely, ground beef.
While I was slurping my perfect spoonfuls of flavor, I realized I forgot to remove all the onions.[GAMEOVER] While I expected this to in my picturesque meal, it didn’t. I finished my delicious dish with joy and maybe a little red sauce lingering in the corners of my smile.
Now, you may be wondering what the heck this has to do with Jesus but I promise I’m getting there.
A few hours later, I was getting ready for bed and realized I had eaten onions. Then it hit me, two months ago when I began this journey “officially” I wrote that the Lord was going to have to change my heart regarding tents, onions, and weird animals.
He has. I’m not saying I’m going to the market and eating raw onions off the shelf, but he slowly is changing me. I’m getting excited to shop for sleeping bags and tents to build my home for the next year. And somehow Jesus is allowing me to eat the worst thing on the earth in peace, onions.
For I am about to do something new.
See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?
I will make a pathway through the wilderness.
I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.
About five minutes after this thought, my Bible app read Isaiah 43:19 (NLT) which I don’t find a coincidence [it also sounded like a thundering voice of God due to this revelation all moment]. See, I have already begun! But the thing is if I’m being honest, looking back, I doubted that God would honor that first blog post. As I pray over this trip and journey on the World Race each day, how much faith do I actually have?
I have a lot of doubters around me, that doubt this trip will actually happen. But do I believe God will actually send me all the way? Do I believe God will fund it? I am no better than my greatest critic this week because I’ve seen that I doubted majorly that the Lord would change me regarding the mustard seeds of my life: tents, weird animals, and onions.
My prayer is that the Lord wI’ll pull faith to the forefront and leaves doubt in the dust in all of our lives. I pray that my unbelief in the onion disappears.
PS: Please don’t send me onions or casseroles with onions.
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