Challenge- A test of one's abilities or resources…A call to engage…A demand for explanation
Change- To give a completely different form or appearance… to transform…To lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; to switch.. To become different or undergo alteration.
When I think of what God has in store for me this next year it blows my mind. And I keep thinking of two words.. Challenge and Change.. The World Race process started three years ago when God gently placed ,before me, this idea of abandoning everything I knew, everything I was comfortable with for Him. To really live as if He is enough and to do something BOLD and something completely RADICAL.. After thinking on this “idea” I had to make a decision.. Apply? Or not to apply?? Then I actually applied and went through the acceptance process. Say what?? I am accepted!!! What came next? My favorite, FUNdraising!! And God completely provided in HUGE ways, because we serve a HUGE GOD!! Then came training camp which was a scary, amazing, flabbergasting – I really just wanted to use that word- intense, awesome, challenging, whirl-wind of an experience. All of which lead me to right here.. sitting at my desk, with camping gear scattered all over my room and a heart full of love and excitement for the nations that I am going to have an opportunity to serve; a hope that cannot be discouraged, and a steadfast joy that my God is soooo good and He can and will do MIGHTY things when I take a itty bitty step of faith towards Him! Today.. exactly one month before I leave.. the calm before the storm… the waiting part.. Soon I will step into the unknown, the unfamiliar, the adventure.. But the best part is that I serve a God that is powerful and to Him nothing is unknown and nothing is unfamiliar.. Isn’t that cool!!!!
