Somehow Launch is less than 8 months away and I could not be more excited!!! I just graduated college (WHAT?!?), life is moving at a thousand miles an hour, and The Lord has been continuously providing in ways that only He can. I feel like a theme that has been evident in my life recently is God’s faithfulness. I have become increasingly more aware of the promises He makes to His children and have been clinging on to them.
Deuteronomy 7:9 states “Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.” What else could you possibly find hope in that is greater than that?? Like dang, what an honor it is to be unconditionally loved by my Creator.
I have always kind of been secretly obsessed with the term “recklessly abandoned”. I love the sound of it, but I also love the significance it holds. To me, reckless abandon ties in to being completely sold out for Christ, abandoning what we have previously known and what the world says is “right” to live a life pleasing to Him. There should be no hesitation when the Lord calls us to something, but rather we should answer that call with fervor and excitement and joy. We hold nothing back and are not crippled by fear, but instead lay all of our worries and anxieties at the feet of Jesus. When we live with reckless abandonment, we are putting our own selfish desires and comfort aside and serving Jesus alone.
Whenever I come face to face with my Savior, the one thing I want Him to say to me is “Well done thy good and faithful servant.” (it gives me so many goosebumps just thinking about that moment). But that is not going to happen without reckless abandonment for Christ.
I just got finished reading “Kisses from Katie” by Katie Davis and all I can say is: WOW. I was completely taken back by the different perspective that was offered. It revealed so many different things to me (and made me 1000000x more excited for the World Race!!). For those of you who have never read it before, it is about a young girl, Katie, who takes a trip to Uganda for a year right after high school to volunteer in an orphanage. Basically, God complete wrecks her world and continues to open doors for her to serve Him in Uganda. She ends up living there permanently, adopting 13 beautiful daughters as a single mother, and beginning a non-profit business in her village to bring children food, education, and medical supplies. Even at the young age of 18 she brought life, love, and Jesus into a place that was dark and hopeless. Some of the things Katie did seemed crazy, completely impossible by the standards of this world. But we can rejoice in the fact that God is not restricted by the standards of this world!! He is able to accomplish more than we can imagine when we are willing.
I feel like being willing (and I mean completely, 100% recklessly abandoned) is all God needs in order to do crazy insane things. We should seek to be mere vessels through which His mighty hand works. I have gotten to experience moments of this in this past year through a spiritual leadership position I held at my school. I was completely incapable of holding this position on my own and knew that it was only Christ through me who could accomplish such amazing things. And He did. He brought together services and placed people in the perfect positions exactly when He needed to. It is one thing to hear about the Lord working, but it is another to witness it in your own life. Watching God reveal His faithfulness to me, even in the smallest of things, was truly transforming.
My personal challenge now, as I prepare to launch in 8 short months, is to continue opening up every area of my life for God to work through. I seek to become so recklessly abandoned that His love and His faithfulness are radiant through me.
