Hey World! Welcome to my blog!
This is the spot where you are going to be able to stay up to date with me while the Lord is working on flipping my life upside down! “What’s going on?” you may ask. Well here’s the deal.
After much prayer and spiritual warfare, I have been gifted the opportunity to travel to 5 countries during the 9 months between September of 2017 and May of 2018. The countries include Romania, Ukraine, India, Chile, and Peru. I really don’t know any more specifics, like what I am going to be doing, where I am going to be living, and who I am going to be serving, but that’s the beauty of it. Not knowing any details leaves 9 months of my unknown life completely out of my hands, forcing me to live in abounding surrender and complete reliance on our Father. Furthermore, it leaves all this space for the Holy Spirit to move, guide, and grow my heart.
Praise God for growth! It’s the season of life that I am in. Growth. It hurts. It’s not easy. For the last 7 months the Lord has been poking and prodding at every little crevice of my heart. Until last summer I couldn’t fully grasp the depth of how much our Father in Heaven longs for a personal relationship with us. He is so vast and His love is eternal. God has shown me that the only way to TRULY Live is to live with Him. And that is something that I have grown up knowing. I knew it in my head, but did I really, deeply believe it in my heart? No. But my heart and belief are growing.
Time after time the Lord is showing me new ways that I can glorify Him. And I have realized and believed for the first time that a huge part of my reverence for the Lord comes from surrender and submission. It’s saying, “God I am letting go of the things that are not mine. Let Your will be done. Teach me humility because holding onto my life is prideful and it’s robbing You of what’s rightfully Yours. My life is not my own. It’s Yours.” The Lord’s will for us is good. But I’ve taken it for granted and tried to control it. I love Isaiah 55:9. The Lord says, “For as the Heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts higher than your thoughts.” God’s supreme!
Anyways, that’s what God has been teaching me recently. But there’s more to share about my physical situation. My original plan after I graduated high school was just to go straight to college, but I really wasn’t peaceful with any of the decisions I made. I felt like I needed to go another direction. I realize that the times in my life when I grow most with the Lord are when I get to serve. Ever since I was little, I have loved people and always had a passion for them. So I thought about the possibility of a GAP year. I was really freaked out at first, but after much prayer I felt the Holy Spirit prompting me to step out in faith and just fill out the application. I prayed that if God wanted me to do the World Race that He would open the door, and if not, He would close it. And after a lengthy process and much angst, I was officially accepted.
So I am eager to inform you guys that I am going! 9 months of eye opening, heart changing life in front of me.
If you would like to stay in touch and remain updated with me, simply hit the “subscribe for updates” button on the left hand side! As this exciting season approaches, I am now beginning the process of fundraising. I must raise a little under $15,000 for all 9 months of The World Race.
If you feel prompted to support me financially, simply hit the “Donate” button in either the left side bar or at the top of the page. I really appreciate it more than you know. I hope you will step foot with me into what the Lord has in store.
Thank you so much for yall’s time and support!
-Justus
