Reading blogs from current racers really gets me excited to go on the race. But they also make me think.
Think about what I will encounter.
How I will live.
How God will change me.
I have been ready for awhile to devote my time and energy strictly to what God wants. And now is the time. (Well July 2011 to be exact). I am ready to see the world through God’s eyes.
I am ready to love his people.
To love the people that no one else will love.
show compassion to the hurting, the dirty, the lowly.
I am ready.
I am excited for what God has planned for me during these 11 months. And though it may not always be the easiest thing, and that it will probably break me and take me to a level I have never been before, I am ready. I am willing. I know God is going to use me and change me like never before. That as I am on the race, he is going to show me things I could never see in the States. That God is going to reveal his plan for my life. That God is going guide me and use me for His glory.
Nothing gives me more joy or excitement than to know I am serving and giving my all to the one and only true God.
To know that he loves me.
To know that he knows my name.
To know that he knows all of my past,
and that he knows all of my future.
It just amazes me and that is something I am probably never going to get over, which I am okay with. I love constantly being amazed by my Lord and Savior.
The race is still 6 months away, but preparing now is everything.
Preparing mentally and spiritually.
Preparing emotionally for leaving the comfort zone I have come to know and love.
Preparing to give all of me, every day to God no matter what it brings me to.
If God brings me to it, he will see me through it.
And remembering that my plans are not always His plans.
