So I was talking to my Aunt, she had bought 2 t-shirts, and it wasn’t really to support me exactly, but more or less to help me reach my goal. I know that her and my Uncle have expressed in the past that America needs more help before people take trips to other countries. Who knows if she will even wear the shirt, she just has the money to spare. So anyway, she was asking me about my trip. Questions like where I was going and what I would be doing. Then she asked me how my mom felt about it.
And honestly, my mom doesn’t necessarily want me to go, but she knows that it is what I want to do and what I was called to do. I told my aunt that and her reply was
“I don’t care. I would not let my daughter go (we are both only children) for anything. If I had 4 or 5 kids, I would allow one of them to go because I have more at home, but I would not let my only one leave home like that. What if something happened to her?”
(Those words really hit me and helped me to show how unselfish my mom is being by supporting me on my trip.)
What if something does happen to me? We are currently in the season of my grandpa passing away. So death is all on our minds. But honestly, if something happened to me on the race, I would be proud to be serving God while it happened. If something happened to me while I was at home wasting my life, then I would be disappointed. And of course I do not want anything to happen, but just the fact that I will be traveling the world, glorifying God and helping others to come to know Him, I don’t think anything could scare me away from it. Death doesn't scare me, as long as I am in the will of God and i trust Him with my life.
Not even sickness or death could scare me away from this trip. And it hurts me that others can’t always see it the same way as me, but God calls us each to our own path. And my path involves traveling the world as a missionary. Death and sickness I might encounter, but the praise and glory I give to God in the process is totally worth it. And I feel confident that the Lord will protect me and my team and my squad, while on the race, but going into it without fear means to:
completely trust the Lord and lay down your life for Him.
After reading this I had a friend write to me. He told me about this song by Mercy Me. This song was written for a young boy named BJ Higgins who died at 15 due to an infection he got while on a mission. (In Peru, too!) It is a GREAT song about doing work for Christ.
Here is the youtube link to a song with the lyrics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgVColLlGJ4&feature=related
Matthew 16: 24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 25 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.
**Thanks Travis!!
