A calling.
Isn’t that what we are all really waiting for in life? Something that we feel deep within us that our Creator has deliberately put there for us to find. Something that sparks passion, fire, and strong love in our hearts.
That’s what it all comes back to for me: a calling from God to be His hands and feet and spread His love beyond the borders of my home country. I have always found such a drive to go out and be involved with missions and be in strong community with people of and for Jesus. So, when God presented the World Race to me, that “something” inside of me stirred, and it stirred hard. I felt myself becoming slowly and surely immersed in the idea of leaving my comfort zone to work and serve God. I immediately felt like spreading His perfect Word and His amazing gracious love is the ultimate calling that I was given, and World Race Gap Year fit perfectly right into my timeline as I was being indecisive about college.
So, this is why I am going on the World Race- to pursue that desire that God has placed in my heart to broaden boarders and spread His love and be His servant. I have always felt pulled to missions and, of course, travel. However, I have often struggled with opening up and leaving my comfort zone. But, God has recently put the word “surrender” on my heart (which I wrote about in my last blog) and, not-so-coincidentally, around the time I became studying that word, I found out about the World Race. Leaving my family, friends, home town, comforts, a year of college- are all steps I must take in order to begin to dive into what God wants from me when He says to surrender. Ultimately, after much prayer and counsel, God’s call for me to take the major faith step and get out of the boat is too overwhelming for me to ignore.
God has made it so clear to me that the World Race is a direction He wants me to step towards, so I am going all in and trusting in His calling for my life.
