So, while waiting on our flight my best friend Michael and my sqaudmate mike went to eat at TGIF. We started talking about the race and training camp and just life in general. All of a sudden the topic of marriage came up. Truthfully, i have been afraid of marriage. I had been fearful that if and when i get married it would not work out and it would lead to divorce or seperation which is NOT what i want. I desire to take the vows till death do us part seriously. I still fear it and wonder if we would stick it out. Mike then said something that God had been teaching me all that week at training camp. He said that married couples need to stuck througj the hard times. Most people decide to change their minds after month five because it was not what they envisioned. You do not marry someone because you get along with them, you marry them because you do life with them and you have a deep trust built with that person.
All of a sudden it clicked for me. Training camp was amazing and hard and beautiful and challenging. But what God constantly kept speaking into me was TRUST. When God calls you to something He is inviting you to trust him and most of the time what he calls you to is difficult and challenging.
God has invited me on a journey with him to bring kingdom to earth. Everything about this upcomming season is going to be hard. I am saying goodbye to my life. I am saying by to who i was and Everything i have known to be transformed into the image of Christ and know more of him. He is inviting me to trust him in this challenging time and i am excited .
At the end of training camp we had to sign a squad covenant form and state what our yes i am willing meant. For me, my yes means i am willing to trust in the Lord wherever he leads me and with whatever he has for me.
Yall i am in a freaking marriage relationship with the one who loves me and sees the real me and offers me life and life abundantly.
This training camowas Everything the Lord knew i needed, from hiking 4.4 miles with gear to hiking 12 mikes up the side of a mountain, to eating crickets and being free in worship. From speaking truth and what trusting looks like to battling spiritual warfare in my mind. And it was all worth it and it will all be worth it in the end.
So hear is to the marriage that i will always have and the journey ahead that is about to begin and spring me forward into the rest of my life with the Lord. I am ready and i am willing and i am saying yes to Jesus with this season.
Get ready cause my life in Christ is about to be changed.
P.s. God wants to do a work in you and through you. He wants a marriage relationship with you and he calls you to more and higher. He wants to journey through life with you and show himself to you in ways you never would imagine. It will not be easy and it will be worth it. Will you trust him. All the struggle these pasttwo years with this process and all of the doubt and tears and moments i wanted to quit and give up are worth it when you step into what he has called you to and has for you. I love you but God loves you so much more.
Sincerely,
Your warrior in Christ
Dylan!!!
