Setting the sense here, I am sitting on a bamboo platform where I sit on my butt crisscross apple sauce to eat every meal. There are three little, thai boys sitting in front of me laughing, slurping noodles that they just made for themselves over a fire. My feet are muddy and I just woke up about 30 minutes ago. How did I get here? What did I do to wake up on New Years Eve 2017 in a bamboo hut, in Changrai, Thailand? What moments or things got me here? If you would have told me last New Years Eve I would be here, I would have laughed in your face and been like “I wish but there’s no way”.
I used to think God just let stuff happen like it happened. Cause and affect not over-thought like, “Oh everything happens for a divine reason.” You trip and fall because you didn’t tie your shoe or just because your name is Corbyn and you trip on everything and anything. You stub your toe because you weren’t paying attention. You get in a car accident because you didn’t see the other car. Other wise known as cause and affect, because of that, this happened. While I still know that to be true, Papa has shown me something new through that. We as people are made in moments, small moments just as much as the big moments. God may not orchestrate everything that happens to us but He is before, within, and after cause and affect. Papa knows before, before the world was even spoken into existence. He is there during walking you through it, and He will use it after no matter what it is, big or small. He doesn’t waste moments or opportunities. He will lavish us in His never ending love or discipline us into becoming all that He has for us.
Now I still can’t tell you what exact moments brought me here to Thailand or going on the WorldRace in the first place. I’ve seen Him use the most insane things that I’ve been through, learned, and hated about myself for His kingdom. For my good in my life and the whole race. Papa has been blowing my mind since day one. All this didn’t just start when I got on the World Race. He used my passion as an athlete to teach me leadership and teamwork. He used my parents divorce so that I can relate with other people my age who have walked through it, are walking through it, and will walk through it. He used my lack of close, healthy friends to draw me closer to Him and learn to only rely on Him because humans will always fail us. He uses every single moment whether we recognize it or not. We can choose to give Him credit or let it fall to fate.
I am beyond thankful and definitely blown away that He used my moments to bring me to Thailand on New Years. Every day dream during school my whole life has been about traveling the world and this is more then I ever could have dreamed. He goes above and beyond anything I could dream or ask for. He bankrupt heaven to save us and to show how much He loves us. So what makes us ever think He would do anything less then everything to blow our minds in our daily lives and in our futures? So thankful that the Maker of the universe has me because He has better plans then I could ever dream.
Currently fundraising for my personal funds right now through my Go Fund Me account. The Link is on my Facebook. Asking for prayers and support. Thank y’all so much for everything! God bless your New Year!
