I have just found myself getting swept up into month 11 of The World Race. This is it. This is the last country I will go to on my World Race.
I don't even know how to wrap my mind around the fact that there are no more countries after this. My next travel day will take me back to US soil. My first few days here in the Philippines have been rest days – to relax, do laundry, get adjusted, and prepare for this month's ministry. I've discovered that at this point it would be all too easy to simply say I'm done and coast through this month, making it more of a vacation than a mission.
I signed up for 11 months though. Not 10 or 10 1/2. I want to continue this thing until the very last day.
"Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means." 2 Corinthians 8:10
I want to finish this with the same enthusiasm as I had when I started this, when I was excited to hoe a field in Moldova. I want to go home completely wiped out, but joyful of how I finished. I know that there's something that God has for me even, or especially, in this final month. I still have something to learn and something to give…and I don't want to miss out on that.
So don't cue the music yet – it's not over till the fat lady sings!
