I would describe the World Race as an 11-month love affair with Jesus, where I have been challenged, stretched and honestly…broken. The best thing I have experienced while I’ve been away has been allowing God to change my heart and making it look more like His. At the beginning, it was hard because when you begin to see just how full of sin your life is, you want to coil into a ball and not let anyone see what you’ve become. There is a certain degree of shame that I experienced when God was taking me through this process, and as time went on I only found myself desiring for God to pull everything out of me that was not of Him. So with the desire to change burning in my heart, God stripped me of my flesh and taught me to see the beauty in discipline, pain and suffering. As time went on, I began to realize that God had completely transformed my life through the trials. He had shaped my heart to look more like His and has made me into the woman He always meant for me to be. Because of the change God has made in me, I felt Him calling me to completely dedicate my life to Him through baptism. To me this baptism symbolizes the change God has done in my life over the last 11 months as well as a reminder of what Christ has done for me on the cross. I hope you share the same joy I felt as you watch this video.
“For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live again should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.” 2 Corinthians 5:14-15
