I have learned that in order to see God’s purpose for my life, He has to remove what I think I need for what I actually need. I always lived with the intent of following God and doing what He wants of me. However, I wasn’t committing myself fully to Him and I didn’t even know it. Sacrificing what I wanted and listening to what God wants was easier said than done. Ever since I started high school, I had no clue what I was supposed to do with my life after I graduate. People started asking me what I wanted to pursue, and I just didn’t know what God’s purpose for my life was. I prayed about it, but nothing really happened. It is because I wasn’t looking where I needed to look. I did not know that the World Race was what I needed to look for and what God wanted for me, but I’m so glad it’s what I’m called to do. A lot of people may not understand why I am doing this. I mean, what I’m doing is kind of crazy. I’m giving up a year of my life to travel to countries I am unfamiliar with to tell people about Christ. I’m giving up the luxuries I have here in America. I am leaving without any real knowledge of what I will do when I return home. I am leaving my friends and family. I am putting 9 months worth of my life in a backpack to go to 5 countries. I am going to allow my heart to be broken for what breaks His. I have to have less so that He can be more. It took me a long time to realize that. To follow God means doing what I’m not comfortable with. It means pursuing what God asks of me despite what others think of me. I’m not sure what this adventure will bring yet, but I most certainly know it will change my life. So I am ready to give it all up for Him and say “Here I am Lord, send me.”
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