The World Race is something I’ve always felt good about. I’ve always been sure about. I still am. I’ve dreamt about the World Race since I heard about it a few years ago. It was always the first thing that came to mind after I heard the phrase “plans after high school.”
Due to me being so interested in it, I did a lot of thinking, praying, planning, and dreaming. I built expectations. But 2020 is a year of change. 2020 has been a year of broken expectations. And God is taking those broken pieces and building something new and beautiful. He likes to do that doesn’t He? And I love that about Him.
Another country has been added to our route and that is the United States of America! My home!
Due to the global pandemic, and after much thought & planning, the world race has decided that world racers of 2020 will be staying in Georgia at the headquarters of adventures in missions until January. So what does this look like you may ask? During this time we will be learning about leadership, discipleship, and going out and evangelizing into neighboring communities.
A few weeks before they made this official i kept thinking about it because they let us know that it would be our plan b if the borders didn’t open by September. I started thinking about everything that’s going “wrong” in my life. I kept thinking ugh of course the year i graduate, the year when i’m supposed to go on the world race, everything just gets messed up!!! i was very emotional. Does anyone else do this? when something doesn’t go as planned they get upset? i need to work on that.
but a couple days before they made this plan b official was when everything started blowing up around America. Protests, riots, chaos. I’ve been seeing everything that’s been happening in the U.S. and I thought to myself, God what’s going to happen? How can I travel across the world to teach about my savior Jesus Christ, our loving and beautiful God when my country is so lost? When it’s hurting so bad and is in need of Jesus more than ever? I saw how hurt everybody is. How lost. How confused. I realized what God was doing.
But remember, God takes the broken pieces and makes a beautiful new creation.
I started thinking about covid. I started thinking about how god turns pain into beauty and how he is the redeemer of all things. What if borders don’t open up by September? What if God wants that? What if he wants us to stay in Georgia together for a couple months and become spiritual warriors for our country? There is a spiritual war going on in this country and i’m starting to really see how God’s timing is really perfect.. I think god is training us for something big.
So that’s the plan and I’m content with it because I know that God’s plans are perfect.
Although my gap year isn’t turning out with how I thought it would, I’m still all in. When I decided on the World Race, I wasn’t saying yes to them. Not to them, their plans, and everything that comes with it. I was saying yes to God. His plans and everything that comes with it. Ultimately, I realized that when your plans aren’t fixed on God’s plan, you will be heartbroken and upset. You will be let-down. But God. He makes ALL things new.
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“And God WILL wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death , nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away. Then He who sat on the throne said “Behold, I make ALL things new.” And He said to me, “Write for these words are true and faithful.” -Revelation 21:4-5
