As I get closer and closer to getting home I have realized I do not want to go home. Now don’t get me wrong I love America. I love my family and friends, but after a year of adventure, of living life with God everyday and everyday seeing Him move in different ways I realized I don’t want that to end. I don’t want to stop seeing His power in miraculous ways. I don’t want to stop hearing His voice so clearly, I don’t want the thirst and hunger I have for His word to stop. I don’t want to stop living life with Him everyday. That’s when He reminds me, none of this has to stop.
God is the same. We read about Him doing miraculous things in the Bible. For example, parting of the Red Sea, feeding of the 5000, so many healings that we can read about in Luke. Over this past year I got to see God do miraculous things. I saw Him heal people, I saw Him change lives, I saw Him hold off rain and so many more things. I don’t want these to end. Then God reminds me that He is the same. Everything that I have seen Him do overseas He does in America as well. The relationship I have with Him doesn’t have to change. I don’t have to stop hearing His voice clearly just because I am going home. I don’t have to stop being intentional with people in conversations. I don’t have to stop pursing God and growing daily. My hunger and thirst for His Word doesn’t have to fade. I may be going home, but that doesn’t mean I have to give up all these things.
There are going to be many changes but God won’t change. He has been the same throughout all the time. He has constantly showed us love and compassion and disciplined us. He is the same no matter the circumstance. Even though I don’t want to go home I am excited to go home knowing that all these things that God has done I know He can do no matter where I am. I am content with going home because I know that God has placed me exactly where He wants me for a reason. I know I’m not saying bye to the mission field because everywhere I go is a mission field. I am so excited to see how God is going to move at home. I am even more excited that He allows me to be used by Him even though He doesn’t need me at all. I’m coming home and I’m ready to serve The Lord wholeheartedly in my own backyard!
