I remember sitting at camp this summer listening to a lady sharing about message with us about the Israelites wandering in the wilderness, and she told us a story about when she was in a desert.
I remember this twinge in my heart, saying "I want to tell great stories like this. I want my life to be full of awesome stories of what God has done."
and I've never been the same since.
God heard my heart that day and started moving. He started stripping away everything in my life that I thought I knew and what I thought I wanted, until all I had was Him. It was a very painful process, but it was so good-because He was there. He was moving, and He was enough.
"If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it."
~Matthew 16: 24-25
When my plans had crumbled and I didn't know what to do, I surrendered my life over and asked God to show me what He had planned for me. He led me to the World Race.
This is bigger and more amazing than anything I would have picked out for myself, and I'm sure it's only going to get more amazing from here.
God knows exactly what He is doing, and is answering that cry of my heart to be able to tell great stories of what God has done.
I have found life and joy and peace in the midst of letting go of the things I thought I wanted.
I'm so thankful that God knows better than I do, and that He calls me to better things.
To God be the glory, great things he has done! So loved he the world that he gave us his Son, who yielded his life an atonement for sin, and opened the lifegate that all may go in. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear his voice! Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people rejoice! O come to the Father thru Jesus the Son, and give him the glory, great things he has done!
