Finally, the Blog you’ve all been waiting for…
Enjoy!
What I thought I knew before training camp:
I thought I knew exactly how much of a Christian I was. How I’ve always wanted to do missions.
How I thought I knew my faults.
I Thought I knew my struggles.
I thought I was always good at opening up to people to tell them my faults and shortcomings.
I thought I could overcome the things I dealt with by myself.
I thought I knew exactly how I truly felt.
I thought I understood why I did some of the things I did.
The worst part was, I thought I knew How God viewed me
Then training camp came along…
Turns out.
I didn’t know anything!
My arrogant bigotry is ridiculous.
I harboured a crazy amount of pride.
I lack way too much trust in God.
I turn to stuff that isn’t at all glorifying to God when the going gets tough.
I cower in fear when I’m being convicted of something.
I’m all around a total tool that has no place in the kingdom of God.
So why does He still keep pushing me to become more like Him?
Why does He believe that I can still bring some glory to Him in this world?
Why does He not just quit and go to someone else that is obviously more qualified than I?
Many people ask these questions, and many times I’ve heard the answers, but I didn’t really understand until I truly allowed God the freedom in my life to teach me.
The answer I learned, not just at training camp but even a few days after, was how much love He really does have for us. It astounds me at how much we can mess up and yet. We are still forgiven, as long as we truly try with everything that we have to repent. And follow the Lord in whatever he calls us.
We mustn’t fear what God calls us to. He protected and guided countless others throughout history as they lived their lives and followed Him (ex. David, Moses etc…) and even those that ran away from Him at times (Jonah, Peter etc…)
A lot happened at training camp.
1. Food was eaten that I never thought to eat. and didn’t always know what it was.
2. I lost 6 pounds.
3. I dislocated my shoulder and went to the ER.
4. I finally forgave someone who I had had an incredible amount of malice towards that I wasn’t aware of.
5. I learned more of what real community was.
6. I learned who my team for this next year will be!
top row: Amberly, Matt, Pablo, Me
bottom: Brooke, Connie, Becca.
7. And I learned of the incredible love God has for us all, including those who don’t know Him yet!
So as always, thank you everyone for reading this blog and supporting me on this journey. I am still in need of $3500 more to get to my $7500 deadline by June 18th. If you’d like to donate, just click the “support me” link at the top of the page or the left side of the page and follow the instructions! Or you could just click HERE.
Thank you again for reading! Love you all.
