Hello friend! Thanks for checking out my site and reading my first blog. Please leave comments, I know I’ll enjoy reading them. And now, for my first insight of the year:
Since I was accepted to the race only a week and a half ago, I feel like I have a million things to do and there’s no way I have time to get it all done before we leave. As I was worrying about it one day, I was reminded of a story we talked about in my bible study just a few days before.
It comes from Judges 7. God calls Gideon to rescue Israel from the Midianites. Gideon had an army of 32,000 men ready to fight but in verse 2 the Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many warriors with you. If I let all of you fight the Midianites, the Israelites will boast to me that they saved themselves by their own strength.” So God reduced the army to 300 men. Verse 22a says, “When the 300 Israelites blew their rams’ horns, the Lord caused the warriors in the camp to fight against each other with their swords.” The Israelites didn’t even have to draw their swords! God gave Gideon victory in a way that he hadn’t expected.
When I applied for this trip I thought I would be going in September. This would have given me time to fully prepare, raise all the money, attend my friends’ weddings this summer, see my friends’ baby born and all sorts of things I really wanted to do. But I had prayed about it and told God that whatever trip AIM asked me to go on, that’s when I would go. So, when they asked me to go in June, worry and panic set in. However, when I remembered this story, I realized that if I was going in September, I’d have plenty of time to get everything done and most likely would have thought, “Wow, look what I accomplished!” Now that I’m going in June and can’t see any way I’ll be ready to go in time, I think God’s going to make a Gideon out of me. He’s reduced my time like he reduced Gideon’s army so that I can’t boast that I did it in my own strength. I am forced to rely solely on Him to provide for me in every way. A week into this thing, and God is stretching me already. I’m so excited about all He’s going to teach me over this next year.
Please be praying for me that I let God take control of my life and quit worrying about it all. I truly believe this is where He wants me so I know He’ll make a way.
