I flew home from the Race on a Thursday, Monday I got called for my first teaching interview, Wednesday went in for the interview and was offered the job! My life had a pretty quick turn around from “Missionary” to “Teacher.” I am now in month 8 of Post-Race life.
Coming home I didn’t have culture shock as you might assume, I did however have community shock. Apparently it isn’t normal to live in 24-7 community with some of your closest spiritual brothers and sisters. I miss them like crazy. I went from an intense community to living in a new town with essentially no community. Over the past 8 months God has been transitioning me from being pushed and stretched by my brothers and sisters to having to depend completely on the Lord. Not that I wasn’t in complete dependence upon the Lord, but now I have been left to walk with the Lord down a path of solidifying my confidence of Him in me. I don’t have my teammates reassuring me of who I am in Him. It has not been easy by any means, but I’m in an incredible season where I get to spend time growing alone with Abba. Just me in Him and Him in me. The theme of what He is growing me in is PATIENCE and TRUST.
TRUST He is in me and I am in Him.
TRUST that He is using me.
TRUST that He will give me discernment on the next steps and that I will not miss His voice.
TRUST Abba.
TRUST me because I TRUST Him in me.
Being out on the field around the world looks way different than life in America living a “normal” life and having what we call a “career”. But the most important thing is still the same…I’m living to bring Kingdom, I’m living to love His children, I’m living to praise His Name, I’m living to glorify the Lord. It may look way different, I might not get to vocalize His heart as often, but I get to be a tangible reflection of His love for His children everyday. Before you get any mis preconceptions here…I know this in my mind, but my heart isn’t always on the same page. I am far from consistent in this mindset; my prayer is that God would make it so evident on my heart that He just radiates out of me.
There is so much more I could say and share about what the Lord has been teaching me over the past few months, but I’ll leave you with this: It doesn’t matter what country you are in or what “career” you have, if you know your identity is in Christ you are called to live to love, live to bring Eternal Kingdom, live to glorify The Great I Am.
Brothers and sisters, we aren’t called to have careers, we are called to have mission fields.
Don’t ever just show up to work, show up to the mission field God has called you to.
Last year as my mission field changed from month to month, I asked God to let me invest into one mission field for a while. He didn’t quite answer with what I had hoped, but the beauty of it all is He placed me in a mission field to love on his sons and daughters here in GA. So for now, my mission field is the students of the high school where I am teaching.
My mission field in Uganda last January My mission field now
