“I need to leave the country!” I have found myself saying this time after time. My desire to experience a new culture, abandon my comfortable lifestyle, and serve the Lord continues to overtake my heart. There is something amazing about being in the midst of a culture and a people whom you feel you have very little in common with. I believe that God moves the greatest when we are the most vulnerable. When we don’t have the answers, when we don’t have a plan. This is when we let go of ourselves and grab a hold of God.
So how was I called to missions?? Well, I don’t always choose the easy way, especially when it comes to God. The phrase “go big or go home” would probably be a good motto for my life with God. There came a point in my life that I had to decide to continue to do things my way or to surrender and do things God’s way. Either way it had to be all or nothing. This is where it all started. I believe that God has been preparing me since the moment I chose to be all in. God has healed and delivered me from myself and of the things of the world that I chose. I have been trained, equipped, and pushed to my limits for this season of my life.
Recently I read a book called “Tortured for Christ” by Richard Wurmbrand. This book flipped my life upside down. I knew when I finished reading it that I could not live my life the same way anymore. Being comfortable in my Christianity while my brothers and sisters in Christ were being beaten, tortured and killed for the sake of the Kingdom was unacceptable. God moved in my Spirit that more needed to be done, I needed to go! I could not sit any longer.
God is the only Way, the only Truth, the only Life!
