One of the reason why I decided to do the World Race is because I was not sure if God’s calling for my life was to become a full-time missionary. To be honest, is month six and I still don’t know.
Something that I’ve been walking through with the Lord is to see what does a life of missionary work looks like for me. The definition of a missionary is, a person sent on a religious mission. Before coming on the race I had placed the idea in my mind that a missionary is a person that specifically goes overseas to share the Good News. Which that is true but is NOT the only way to share the Good News.
God commissioned all believers to go out and share the gospel with all who do not know him. It is so easy to think that we have to go to another country to be obedient to His command. However, this command looks very different for every person. Let me clarify my earlier statement of me not knowing if I’m called to be a full-time missionary, the truth is that I know I am. I am called to share the love of our faithful Father with everyone that I come across. But where the “ I don’t know” comes from, is that I don’t know if he is calling me to go to a foreign country to do this.
This month we are in Kenya, like in our previous months, this month we are teaching English to kids. But don’t let this fool you, this month feels very different to me. I don’t know if is because the believers that we have met are so on fire for God, or because I truly love where God has placed us for this month. Whatever it is, this month feels different from the others and I count that as a blessing. Our host, David, he is a local and he is known in the community as the missionary. The fact that he is from here and lives here and is known as the missionary that really caught my attention, in the good sort of way.
He knows his identity is rooted in Christ and knows the commission God has given him. It is very inspiring to see him explain to his own people why he is a missionary. A missionary is not someone that only leaves the comforts of home to follow God, but is also someone that despite their circumstances always shares who God is. Whether that is with your next door neighbor or somewhere across the country.
As I’m writing this we are on our way to evangelize to an unreached people group on the border of Kenya and Uganda. As we go, I keep thinking of what a privilege this is. To go and share who our God is, but at the same time I keep thinking of all the opportunities that I had back home to do this and chose not to do so because of fear or not wanting others to be uncomfortable. The word that keeps coming to mind is just simple disobedience to His command. What I’m getting with this is that, don’t let the idea of what society says is mission work stop you from doing it. Go love on people no matter where you are, everyone in this world are children of God and are loved by Him.
“We are coworkers with God and you are God’s cultivated garden, the house he is building.”
1 Corinthians 3:9 TPT
