About a year ago, when I felt God was calling me to do the World Race, I had a few ideas of what this next year of my life would look like.
1. I thought I would be able to influence people around the world.
I would like to think that God is still using me to minister to others, but these past 5 months have been so much more than this. God has taken a hold of me and showed me things I wasn’t even aware of. He has shown me my worth in Him as a daughter of the King. He has showed me that I can’t truly love others until I love myself. He has shown me that strength comes through being weak. He has showed me how little I can do without Him and how incredibly much I can do with Him.
2. I thought I might make some friends along the way.
But that is so wrong, I have joined an incredible family. God has given me the privilege to live with incredible people who truly love me. They don’t tell me things that I want to hear, but they challenge me. They call me up to be the person that God has made me to be. We laugh together, cry together; we do life together and I am so thankful for them!
3. I thought I might get to know God better.
Better doesn’t even begin to describe the way that I see my Savior. Before the Race, if someone had asked me what my purpose on this earth was, I would have said it is to please God. How sad! What if my Dad asked me what me purpose was in our family. It would break his heart for me to say I just want to please him. My Dad loves me and wants a relationship with me. He wants me to love him back and if for some reason my sisters didn’t understand this, he would want me to tell them the love that I had from my Dad and that they could have it to.
That’s it! My Jesus wants us to have a relationship with Him and to understand His crazy ridiculous love for us and if our brothers and sisters don’t get it, we go tell them! It’s not that hard. He is already pleased with us, we are His kids and He can’t wait until we live with Him in eternity.
So has the Race been what I thought it would be? Not even close! God has grown me, stretched me and held me in His arms. And the great thing is, I’m only halfway done! I am so excited to see what else is in store for me this year, the growing and stretching doesn’t feel good but being held in His arms makes it all worth it!
