What am I doing with my life?At some point I think everyone asks themselves this question. As a Christian, when I asked myself this question, I didn’t have this moment where all of the sudden I knew exactly what I was supposed to do with my life. However,the Lord did teach me what it’s supposed to be about.
I have known the Lord since I was in the third grade, baptized when I was in the sixth. Now as a nineteen year old, my relationship with the Lord changed in the best way imaginable. The steps it took to get where we are weren’t easy. There was a point in time where I had lost direction. I was mad at God, unsure about my future and had put him on a back burner. During this time God gave me a trial. There were two solutions to this trial. His way and my way. The Lord made it clear that the only real answer to this trial was His. I ignored this and chose my own solution. I felt more regret and sadness than I ever had while dealing with the consequences of my action. I felt shame in ignoring God and knew that I needed to seek Him to recover. I swallowed my pride, humbled myself and prayed the first real prayer I had in months. God did something amazing that day, He gave me grace. He showed me love, He showed me how much I had been misinterpreting His character. He changed my world that day. That amazing grace, that sweet grace, was given to me, an angry child who definitely did not deserve that love . At that moment Jesus went from being someone who I knew, to the person my life is going to be dedicated to. At that moment every sermon that talked about spreading the word of Jesus made sense. That grace, that feeling of being so loved, the news of Jesus that gives so many of us a way to know God, isn’t known to everyone. That’s why I met with my pastor and took the first steps to making sure my life is about spreading the news of Jesus. The Lord planted this seed deep within me that loves adventure and travel; I am ready to take that seed and blend it with what my life is supposed to be about. It took years, but here I am, ready for Jesus to be my life. The world race is a calling to spread the word, but loving Jesus is a lifestyle.
When I asked what I was supposed to to with my life I wasn’t handed and answer like, become a teacher. I was given the answer, live for Jesus!
That’s why I’m sitting here in a coffee shop writing on my world race blog because the Lord called me to mission. He called me to make Thailand,Malawi and Guatemala my home. The place where I’ll teach others about that awesome grace and the awesome thing our God did.
