I have spent the past week trying to figure out how I am going to write this blog and what I am going to say. Unless you know me well, I assume this blog (based on the title) is not something everyone wants to read.
God used the World Race as a tool to grow me, shift my thoughts and views of the world and to fall more deeply in love with Him. I have learned more and seen more of His character in this past nine months than I have in the past year at home.
I believe at home, I got comfortable with having only Christian friends and being involved mostly with the church. The World Race pushed me and taught me how life is so much more than your small bubble. In the past year I have met Swazis, South Africans, Nepalese, Germans, Indians, Guatemalans, Israelis, Australians, Americans, British, Ukrainians, middle eastern, and Japanese people (probably more but I never got their nationality). I only met a few of the people from each country. The world is just so stinking big. There are so many people on this earth that need Jesus and we haven’t even met them yet. There are also so pretty incredible people who have gone through so much for the Gospel that I got the opportunity to meet.
There are two big things that God used the World Race to teach me: community and living mission minded.
COMMUNITY
As people and especially as Christians, we need to do life in community. We cannot do life alone. I have lived in intensive community for nine montages and these people have changed me and have always been there for me. I wouldn’t change this for the world.
MISSION MINDED
The world is my mission field. Not just America and not just India but everywhere. I have realized that I need to live my life as though I was on the mission field. The truth is I always am. If my life is to serve Jesus, then I don’t get a “vacation” from preaching the Gospel or loving people. It should just be a natural overflow of spending time with Him and desiring to do His will.
God doesn’t just work through the race, but this is what He used for me to open my eyes to the rest of the world. I’m so grateful for this experience and thatHe used this for His glory.
