I just got back from training camp FOUR WHOLE DAYS AGO. “Just” got back. But.. four whole days ago.
The title of this blog is just one candy in a giant’s halloween candy bag of “everything I sort of did not want to do but really secretly loved.” The ten days of the World Race training camp consisted of a million heart-racing airplane jumps (WITH parachutes) and I think I loved EVERY moment. I will spare the details but know that every cold shower and sleepless night and lung bursting hike, each sore muscle and brain wrenching session and heart squeezing worship and emotion dripping talk made me feel stronger and more alive. I think I will like living here. away from my comfort palace.
It’s more comforting, anyway, knowing you stepped out of that zone and into the woods where Jesus is leading you. It is EXHILARATING! I will follow my Jesus to the ends of the earth and farther, flying off and into space if we must. These ten days that felt equivalent to a year, left my thoughts in a bit of a flurry; but the dust is settling and I see the cities Jesus is building in my mind and heart more clearly now.
Who am I?
A daughter of the Most High God.
That alone should free me from all anxieties and fears.
who is my Father…THE FLIPPING CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, THATS WHO!!
Sorry God, I hope you have no aversions to the word “flipping.”
May I just share the most clarifying message He gave me here at training? During feeling and thought overload, when in my moments of weariness (physically, mentally, spiritually) in those moments when I was a little too cold and tired to stay awake and I just wanted some comforting cuddle thing to hide behind (my bookshelf, a hot bath, a ridiculous number of blankets that actually NOBODY needs except in the furthest regions of the Arctic),
Wandering in the midst of this entertaining thought of “what if I stayed and remained comfortable…I could sleep,”
I would then hear so clearly “Go and make disciples”
And I couldn’t help but smile and know that God is calling me to this, this crazy trip that I am insanely excited about. He is calling all my team members and my leaders and mentors, He is calling each and every one of our donors and prayer warriors.
And a wave of peace would wash over me.
Any moments of doubt didn’t make it past the beginning thought before Jesus would send waves of assurance over me. I love this feeling of peace, from listening. From walking after Jesus.
May we all walk after Jesus. I pray that you too, my friend, will walk after Him. To love, as HE does, everyone around us.
Matthew 28:19-20
“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
-Jess W
