Passport
Leader Training has been incredible. These men and women that the
Lord has invited in to lead this summer are people worth knowing.
The Father
has been softening our hearts while breaking them. He’s been showing
us more and more of his love and His faithfulness. He’s been asking
us to go deeper with Him, assuring us that He’s trustworthy.
For me
it’s also been a time of closing a really sweet chapter of my life.
I moved out of the place that’s been my home since last October. The
Lord has done so much these past 7 months. I don’t even know where
to begin. The relationships that I’ve built and the dependence that
I’ve come to in the Him have struck something deep inside of me.
With
change there usually comes this inward struggle. I know that I need
to let go and grieve and appreciated this season for what it has been
and move into the next knowing that the Lord has something more that
He wants to do. There’s something in us that wants to stay
comfortable, that wants to stay put together and neat and tidy. This
is where I find the Lord always moves me into something new. He
nudges me out of my comfort zone once again to learn a new depth of
dependence on Him. He peals back another layer of my heart and
touches me in a deeper way than ever before.
Today I
left Gainesville. I’m not at Toccoa Falls College. I’ve met the
girls that I’ll be sharing my life with for the next 2 months, and I
can’t even tell you the joy that I have. The love that the Spirit is
filling my co-leader and I with for these young women is not our own.
It can’t be. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced anything quite
like this.
I look
forward and the road ahead is uncertain in so many ways, but I also
see it filled with richness. I believe I’m going to find that in a
way this summer that I’ve never known.
It’s going
to be worth it.
Because He
has purposed and planned this and because of His great love for me I
can trust Him.
I can
trust Him.
The Lord
spoke this to the nation of Israel, and I believe that it’s true of
his kids today as well. It gives me hope and comfort.
“Do
not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD will personally go ahead
of you. He will be with you; He will neither fail you nor abandon
you.”
Deuteronomy
31:8
I can
trust a God who personally goes before me and will never fail me or
abandon me.
His
love is more than I can take in.
So here
I am. Blessed. Humbled. Encompassed by His great love.
India
here we come!
