My Squad Above:) I love them already, we are dirty, close, and unified already!
We are B Squad (Best Squad)! This is also the field we are staying in and is usually filled with over a hundered tents!
So currently I am on training camp for the race … Man this is reallllllyyyy stretching me. I feel like a rubberband being pulled and pulled and I am waiting for it to snap. Yes there are challenges in getting ready and preparing for the actual race, the outside stuff. What is pulling me is what is happening on the inside.
I am around people who come from many different denominations, people with all different beliefs and it has really been making me question where I am at regarding my relationship with God. As much as some of the stuff really freaks me out I am growing. I have been praying for God to reveal more of his character to me and I thought that I was beginning to figure him out. Hahahahaha…right. I had God in a box, however, God cannot fit into a box. I am kind of scared to see who God really is, how powerful he is, what he can do. The other part of me is sooooo excited to learn about him and learn the power of him!!!!
Other than unboxing God I have been receiving FREEDOM!!!!! I thought that I had gotten rid of a lot of my baggage, my regrets, guilt, blame, but being here has opened my heart to how my past is impacting me now. During the awesome worship here I have been cutting pieces of my old self off and letting it go. I have been receiving the power and the love of God and am feeling lighter and lighter everyday! Wow it feels sooooo good!!!!
here are two visuals that I have loved hearing that really show how I am new:
When a caterpillar is in its cocoon its poop stays in it; however the poop actually creates the beautiful wings!!! I was really struggling with feeling free from my baggage until I heard this. My baggage represents the wings. God has transformed me and is using my past to create beauty! I am now FREEE to flyy!
The other represents how we are new in Christ! When you put your faith in Jesus you no longer look like yourself. God sees you as blameless as Jesus. Visual: when you dye something you put it in the dye and when you pull it out you can no longer see the old fabric, you only see the new masterpiece!
