Lately I’ve been struggling with the feeling of not wanting to go. Sometimes I hear myself think- “I don’t want to go on the World Race.” I get to see my family whenever I want, talk to them on the phone whenever I want. I get to watch my nephew get smarter and cuter everyday. I have two paying jobs. I have money to pay the bills and get something nice every now and then. I have a comfy bed. I can eat whatever I want, whenever I want. I can travel to see my friends. I can go to the same church every week with the same people and hear about the awesomeness of our God.
In other words- My life is perfect. I’m comfortable.
None of these things are wrong, but how does this kind of life fit with God’s command to “proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light?” (1 Peter 2:9b)
Every time I think of backing out on the trip, a picture appears in my mind-
I see a woman, aged by the struggle of living in poverty her whole life.
I see her sitting in front of an old dirty shack made of cardboard.
I see her pain of hunger.
I see her desperate for something better.
I see the hopelessness in her eyes.
I see her unloved by the world around her.
She deserves something better.
She deserves to know that Christ loves her more than anything.
She deserves to know that Christ loves her enough that He would lay down His perfect life for her.
She deserves a chance to be called into his marvelous light.
She deserves to know what it feels like to be loved.
It would be downright selfish of me to continue living the way I am, and knowing Jesus Christ and what He has done for us, while an unloved old woman sitting in front of a pile of trash she calls home, know nothing about the love of Christ.
And that is why I’m going.
“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called out of darkness into His marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
1 Peter 2:9-10
YOU ARE LOVED
