Last week was amazing! I was at training camp getting ready for this amazing adventure that God has called me to. I got to dip my toe in and just get a glimpse of what I could be doing next year, and I got to meet the amazingly wonderful people that I get to live life with! BTW this has made it very hard for me (and I'm sure others) to come back home to finish pre-race life.
So what did I do? Well to start, if you want to know details as to what I did, message me. I'm not going to post them here so that future racers don't know what to expect (trust me future racers, knowing about Training Camp will RUIN TC for you!).
So then what did I learn? Good question, truth is I'm still processing and still learning but I will try to form my experiences into words…
See we had some amazing speakers that gave awesome lectures. But for me, I had already heard them all before, either from school or the summer intensive program. Thankfully that's where the Holy Spirit came into play. I had been given a picture each day that grew into a vision.
Basically it was of me holding the world, ready to go and wanting to give it to God so bad. Then Jesus came up behind me and held it with me, reminding me that I was still in the world (but not of) and though as much as I wanted to give him the world, to go in to the world for him, that it was not yet time. Then I saw me reclining against Jesus and we were still both holding the world, and he was reminding me not go without him (I have a tendency to get so excited to do stuff for God that I forget that I need to do it with God). Then I saw myself giving God the world, letting go of all my hopes and dreams, giving them to God and just resting in God because it's not yet time for me to go.
Don't worry I'm still going on the World Race in January, but God was teaching me that I need to live in the here and now, not keep my focus on the future. I was (and still am) being taught that I need to finish well.
Finishing Well seems to be a theme that God has for me during this season. I know that there is a reason that I am living where I am and working where I am. So I need to stop looking so much into the future, and keep my focus on God and the here and now. There are people here who need God and God wants to use me. Therefore, if I am so focused on the Race, I will miss what God has for me now, and what he has for others in my life. God wants the fire I have for the world to be directed to the lives that I can affect now.
Upon returning from Camp, several of my squad mates have had loved ones pass. This only reinforces the idea to finish well because the people I can impact now may not be around when I get back. God was (and is) reminding me that part of the world are the places and the people that I see all the time. I need to see them, love them, help them, be the only Bible that they may ever read, have Christ spilling out of me so much that they no longer see me.
So my prayer request is this: Pray that I don’t miss the open doors that God has for me, that I don’t waste my time here, that I finish well.
My challenge to you is: Finish well! We all go through seasons of life, so finish this season well before moving onto the next!
Stay tuned to find out about my squad and who my team is in my next blog!