Expectations
for the World Race
for the World Race
Here are just a few of the things that we are looking
forward to:
- To
chase after God with everything that we are - To realize
the things we take for granted everyday - To miss
our family, friends, and puppy dearly - To live
in genuine biblical community with our team - To lose
our sense of entitlement - To eat
things that we have never even dreamed existed - To
travel and live in unpleasant conditions - To be
broken for the least of these - To go
days or weeks without even the possibility of a shower - To grow
in knowledge & spiritual awareness - To be
shaken out of contentment and complacency - To be
joyfully uncomfortable, insecure, and unsafe - To
witness miracles - To
leave behind the pursuit of the American Dream - To fall
in love with the broken - To hear
very different views of the Gospel and to strengthen our relationship with Christ
because of it - To see
the vastness and beauty of God’s creation - To be
humbled by how small we are compared to the God’s glory and His kingdom - To hear
from God - To
struggle and wrestle with our faith and to fall down often - To be
uplifted and be given peace - To have
experiences, meet people, and live stories that we can hopefully share with our
grandchildren - To live
without - To
pursue the truth of the Word and fortify our conviction in it - To be
sore, hurt, ill, and exhausted at the same time - To cultivate
God’s vision for marriage in our lives and grow closer to each other - To
experience the whole spectrum of human emotions - To
continue to search for God’s will in our lives - To share
God’s glory in everything that we could never expect - To come
home and never be the same
