First off I would like to apologize for the late start to blogging…life has been crazy since deciding to be a part of the World Race. One of the topics that we were asked to talk about was our call to the mission field and mine is more of a two part answer. I grew up going to church and I felt God calling me to something more a lot sooner than I accepted to do so. I was the type that knew my life better than God and my decisions were the right decisions. Through all of this I always included God, asking Him to bless my decisions AFTER I made them.
I had the time of my life in high school and college. Graduation day came and I was graduating with the best friends in the world, a great job, and a promising future. I moved and started my pursuit of “the American dream”. The more success I acheived, the more success I craved. I was never satisfied. I was coming back home from a long road trip and something came over me to just start praying. I prayed for over an hour in one of the most intense prayer sessions I’ve ever had just asking God to take control. I realized that for so long I did what I wanted and did what I thought was best without even involving the God who created me! I was in this “perfect” situation for ME but I asked God to show me what He wanted.
Over the coming days He made it very clear and revealed to me what was REALLY important in my life. I began to realize how blessed I was. I took forgranted for so long the fact that God had blessed me with an awesome family, great friends, a good job, a vehicle, a roof over my head, food whenever I wanted to eat, and the list goes on. I started to see that it wasn’t about the money, cars, houses, retirement, clothes, etc. AKA IT WASN’T ABOUT ME! Through a lot more prayer and God just being God I was led to the World Race. There are a lot more side stories to this to say the least but this is how God picked up the phone and called me to do something more, and for once I stopped hitting ignore!
