In november of last year I was talking to a friend and she introduced me to The world Race, an 11 month long mission trip that take people to 11 different countries. At the time I had no idea that God had already laid this path out for me to walk down. And now, 8 months later, I’m sitting in the airport waiting to board a plane that will take me to the Dominican Republic, listening to Ben Rector, asking myself, “is this really happening?” The answer to that question, YES!!! I cant believe that these past 8 months have gone by so fast. Time creeps up on you. I thought that 8 months would take forever, I was wrong.
Time is a gift that has been given to us. its not one of those gifts that you get at a wedding shower, or for christmas or you birthday then put in the back of you closet and never use. Time is the one thing that everyone on earth has been using since birth. Time is a gift, and we have been allowed to choose how we use our time. See when i was looking at 8 months 8 months ago i thought that it was going to be so long and couldn’t wait for it to be done with, but now that I’m looking back at how I had used those 8 months while I was still home, I wish I could do it again.
When I had been given opportunities to glorify God with my time, most of the time I choose to glorify my self. When I was with my friends and family, I wasn’t using the time wisely. I used it like a person who would see them tomorrow, not as a person who would see them in a year.
There were relationships I had with people that were hurting and I left them hurting because I didn’t use my time to glorify God and I didn’t try to mend those relationships. I used it to glorify my self.
As I’m about to board I want to leave the state giving this challenge, don’t waste what God has given you. We have have been given a gift, we need to use it to the best of our capabilities.
When God gave Solomon wisdom, Solomon used it. When God gave Samson strength, he used it.
I use these two examples because both of these men had a gift that could of been used to glorify themselves or to do what their will, or they could of used it to complete the will of the Father.
My prayer is that we would use what He gives us in a way that makes us look like a compass, and that the compass would point straight to God.
