I have noticed some things about myself since starting the World Race which has surprised me some because I usually think of myself as a person who is selfless and one who lives within my means. Turns out I was wrong about this way of thinking. I am a person who thinks about myself more than I think and I do not live within my own means according to the rest of the world's standards of what a rich person really means to the world.
On Friday afternoon our team flew from from DC to Dallas on our way to Costa Rica and when I was standing at the gate with the rest of my squad. One of my teammates handed me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The sandwich was not to my standards! The sandwich had a big grape smashed spot in the middle of the sandwich. In this situation I was like really my sandwich looks nasty!! I don't want to eat the sandwich this is nasty! I walk past the trash can about to throw away my sandwich but then God said Blake I have blessed you greatly and allowed you to have this to eat! Most of the world lives in poverty and the way you view things is going to turn upside down this year. Be thankful and eat the sandwich!! So in the end I did eat the whole sandwich and was thankful to God for providing me with food.
In America, if we don't like something we throw it away!! Everything from food, shoes, clothes, and even our vehicles! We as people including myself are selfish people.
Today in Costa Rica I went out with my team and we went out to a dirt poor neigborhood where words are not even enough to describe the poverty the people of Costa Rica live in. We went out to this area in Costa Rica where families live in tin houses and every house has bars on the doors. I could see the sadness in the children's eyes because the fathers run away from taking care of the children. Prositution is legal in Costa Rica so families are large but many children have no father to take care of the children. To be real here with y'all the men treat women as sex objects where the father will use the woman to satisfy his sexual needs but then runaway from the responsibility of taking care of the children. This makes men look pathetic and everyone is affected around the man. The mother thinks she's worthless and the children feel like they have no one to love them in their lives.
Here's where God allows me to be apart of His Ministry. I don't know how God is going to use me but He will do great things through me and my teammates. This is a blessing from God because without Him I am nothing!
Our team is going out in Costa Rica and spreading God's Love to the people. We are going out for the next three weeks and helping out with 6:8 Ministries by helping them feeding children and being involved in Children's Ministry. I don't know what this is going to look like but God has the plan in His hand and God is our GPS! Follow God's positioning satellite and I will be fine. If not I'm in trouble!
Stay tuned!
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