So, going on The World Race last year was absolutely amazing.
It was the hardest, funnest, most challenging, most rewarding, most broken, and most growing experience of my entire life.
But it was not my peak.
I want you guys to really get this.
It was not my peak.
See because God never stopped using me.
He still calls on me every day to bring about His glory and His Kingdom.
This month starts my first month Squad Leading a World Race Squad that will last for five months and will go to five countries in Asia.
Guys.
I am in love with them.
They are all so beautiful and majestic and imperfect.
And I love them.
I wish I could express in words how much.
But love is a hard thing to capture with just words.
I can’t wait to watch them grow closer to the Lord and understand more of their true identity in Christ.
I can’t wait to watch them work miracles in people’s lives and bring hope to those who have never had it before.
And I can’t wait for God to change me and stretch me into more of the man He has called me to be.
But this year won’t be my peak.
After these five months are finished I am moving to Japan to start an Adventures In Missions base in Osaka, Japan.
There I will facilitate a growing team of Long Term Missionaries in Japan for several years.
Together we are going to take the nation of Japan to reign down the Kingdom of Heaven.
We are going to take Japan for Jesus.
We are also going to raise Japanese nationals to become missionaries to the rest of the world.
Imagine that.
It is going to be glorious.
Now listen to me.
Those years will not be my peak.
I can promise you, they won’t.
I’m sure you guys are sensing a pattern by now.
Here’s the crux.
I will never ever, not once, have a peak.
There will never be a day that comes where God stops using me.
There will never be a time where the Lord says “You’ve done enough.”
Not until He brings me home.
Not until death.
Church, I need you to here this.
You have not, nor will ever have a peak.
God will never stop using you.
The author of Hebrews (probably Paul) challenged us with this:
“Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.”
There are some people who are jogging the race.
There are some people who are walking the race.
And then there are those who are sitting on the bleachers watching other people run the race.
But we are commanded to run the race.
We are commanded to keep going until the end.
Paul says it this way to the Philippians, “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”
Stop jogging.
Stop walking.
Stop sitting on the sidelines.
Sprint.
He never gave you a break.
He never said you were finished.
He only said run.
Come to me.
Finish.
Guys, the reward at the end is so unfathomably worth it.
The reward is eternity with Him.
Eternity with joy and peace and love.
Heaven is going to be an eternal party.
Doesn’t that make giving our entire life on this Earth for Him worth it?
Paul thought so.
“But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.” (Phil. 3:20-21)
Yup.
Sounds pretty worth it.
Count me in.
You are not done.
You haven’t peaked.
God still has so much to do through you and show you.
And all of it will bring you closer to him.
So, get up.
Get off your butt.
And start sprinting.
Retirement is not an option.
There is so much more to do.
Praise God I will never be out of a job in His Kingdom.
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