So as you may know already, all world race squads have been taken home from the field early due to the coronavirus. I’ve been home for about 3 weeks now and its been weird. You know, coming home after 7 months but nothing about being home is “normal”. I can’t leave my house, I’m quarantined just like pretty much everyone else. I’ve been brought home early and I was hoping that after 14 days in quarantine I would be able to go out and begin ministry here in Katy, Texas. That has not been the case… with the virus spreading so rapidly, the quarantine has been extended to April 30th, maybe even longer. I’ve been trying my best to use this time well and wisely, reading my Bible daily, spending time with the Heavenly Father, and being productive. I found myself slowly starting to spend my time doing more and more unproductive, not life-giving things. Basically, I was starting to waste my time more and more. Scrolling through Tik Tok, watching Netflix, watching lots of youtube, shopping online, tanning, working out, making random vlogs, etc. These things aren’t bad but they started taking over which isn’t good at all. They not only became my main focus, but I quickly realized almost everything I was doing, I was doing for myself. It all only really benefited myself and I had to consciously realize that so things could change. I started shifting my focus a couple days ago to truly searching and digging to find out what God really wanted to speak to me about, teach me, and lead me to do during this time at home. This is what he’s given to me and you right now…
He’s given us time to rest,
time to truly reflect and process life,
time to grow closer to him,
time to figure things out that we’ve been ignoring,
time to heal from past wounds,
time to reconcile with each other,
time to reset,
time to set our foundation in him/make our foundation stronger,
time to rejoice in a prison that may also be known as quarantine.
What he didn’t intent for this time for us was…
numbing out our actual circumstances through tv, through speaking to friends 24/7, through alcohol or drugs, through video games, through sleeping excessively, etc.There are so many ways to numb. If you’re numbing, you’re pushing away beautiful emotion due to fear of it being too much for you to handle. You may be ignoring a hard conversation that you’ve been needing to have with someone for a long time or just pushing your insecurities down deeper and pretending like they’re not there. You can’t fight something you ignore and you can’t get rid of something you don’t approach. So I just want to encourage you all to ask the Lord to take over the areas of your heart, mind, and soul that have been consumed with fear. Sometimes fear can be hard to see cause that’s also something we as humans tend to ignore, but still, ask the Lord to overtake your fear and replace it with hope.
ASK GOD FOR HELP.
HUMBLE YOURSELF.
You can’t survive this alone.
& remember: you are N E V E R alone.
I also want to encourage you to seek the Lord to find his purpose for you in this time. As long as your alive, every morning you wake up, the Lord still has a purpose for you. Find it. & if you don’t automatically find something, do not worry. He could be preparing you for something greater. That’s when you ask the Lord for perseverance.
I could go on & on but I’m just gonna end it here and hope and pray that the Lord spoke to you in some way through this.
Happy Sunday!!
Jesus loves you a lot.
