When God called me to go on the race I was so excited. I wanted to grow in my faith in so many ways and be stretched further than ever. I asked him to move in me and radically change my life. I want to see myself become more like him everyday. I’m learning what it looks like to do that.
Being in Guatemala has been so amazing. But it wasn’t hard to get comfortable here. We have a nice place to stay, good food to eat, and wifi is only a thirty minute bus ride away on the weekends. So many times since I’ve been here I’ve asked God to make me uncomfortable and to show me where I can be growing. Something that I heard that I love is that God loves you too much to leave you where you’re at. We should never be content with where we’re at. He has so much for me and i’ll never reach a place where he will tell me I’ve grown enough. Everyday I’m asking God where I can be growing and dying to my flesh and filling it with more of him. It’s so easy to focus on what the world tells you to do and who to be and how you should be spending your time, but we are not a part of this world and we are seated with the father and he has an amazing life planned for each and everyone of us. Sometimes that requires sacrifice and being uncomfortable. Something I know for sure is that being uncomfortable creates so much growth. It allows room for God to speak into your life and show you more areas where you can be more like him. If you tell him you want to grow and ask him to make you uncomfortable, he will.
I’ve noticed since being here that I am too comfortable. And I’m not okay with it. I’ve been asking the Lord where I can be stripping away more comfortability and areas where I can be surrendering more to him. God has asked me to give up my comforts of home that I’m holding on to and give it to him. I think that there are still some areas in my life where I’m not fully depending on the Lord. I want to depend on him for absolutely everything I do. On the weekends I have noticed that all my time is completely consumed by spending time on wifi and calling friends and family from home. That’s where I am clinging to comfort and God has asked me to surrender that to him. To be able to call on him and trust that everything is okay at home without having to know everything. To depend on him to take care of my family and grow them in ways that only he can do.
So, for the month of November I’m going to be fasting all wifi, social media, and contact with home. I really want to be fully present in our last month here. Everyday I’m going to be praying for my family and trusting that the Lord has them and is protecting them. I’m going to be praying that the Lord will do incredible things in their lives and that this would be a month of growth for them as well. I’m taking this month to really go deeper with the lord than I might have never been willing to before. I want to learn how to depend on him for every single thing in my life. This will be a month full of being uncomfortable but also a month full of so much growth. The Lord has blessed me with an amazing family and ill be spending the entire month praying for them and their relationships with the lord to grow so much deeper and for him be be speaking into their lives. So, besides posting my weekly blog ill be off of all social media until December! Please keep my team and I in your prayers as we continue on this journey. God is so good, amazing things are happening here!!
