Friends & Family,
God is so faithful. Even beyond being fully funded, He has been faithful to give me all I need and has blessed me with men and women of prayer and an amazing team to do ministry with. His goodness can not be measured.
It is literally hours before I leave for Atlanta and enter a new season of my life. A new beginning, a loving community, and a fresh understanding of where the Father wants me to dwell, this moment. I can not help to think back months ago, seeing my fundraising balance at $100 and not knowing what was before me and how it was all going to workout. In fact, looking back at the very start of my senior year I feel like the headline theme of this whole year began – the presence of uncertainty. Almost like a ever present noise in the back of your head, it can create and develop a sense of urgency and demand for the future. Out of response we make things and plan, and sometimes reside in constant preparation of where we are going, not where we presently are. For me I found myself in preperation for the World Race missing opportunities to hear God and to open myself to His voice to use me in the present place of the U.S. The irony comes when the reality of missing those opportunities is because I was walking, close-minded, preparing to witness and profess. I feel like the Father revealed to me as I was preparing for this trip, that He is calling us to dwell in His presence this day. His timing is perfect, He just wants us to trust him.
I sat months ago in a coffee shop, thinking to myself “If I was just fully funded I would be set, and I would know more about where I would be and have a better understanding of what life was like there”. And now I sit here, fully funded, still not knowing what is going to happen, who I will meet, and what I will see. Beneath the natural response of uncertainty, there is a fine beauty in not knowing what, or where. It urges a response for us as believers to trust the almighty faithful God who has gone before us and who has poured out His Holy Spirit on us, and the goodness of this truth comes in knowing that we can trust in the God who is set apart from everything – who is perfect in all of His ways; an all powerful good, good Father. So, we walk in boldness, because He has given us his spirit. He is wanting us to dwell in His presence in the present – a calling to our devotion and affection towards Him admist the reality of the future.
