“Faith never knows where it is being led, but it knows and loves the One who is leading.” – Oswald Chambers
When I chose to apply for the World Race, It’s because I wanted God’s will to be done, not mine. It seemed I had never given my whole life over to Him, every part… Not leaving anything out. I thought, what better way to put the fate of my entire life in God’s hands than to apply for a trip like the World Race. After I was accepted, a large portion of my focus turned to what I thought I was going to be doing for God while on this trip. I thought that I was coming to save the world, knowing the whole time I had no credentials to do such a thing. What I now realize is that the moment I put myself in God’s hands, He sent me here to save me.
I think it began to hit me while painting a door in the hallway of a church in the village of Sandansky, BG. We asked to be able to serve the church in some way, so we were given paint brushes, old doors and twenty small buckets of white paint. This is a job that most people with motor skills of any sort can accomplish. Many of my blogs call attention to this same idea that the actual work we are doing isn’t very profound and doesn’t take all that much skill to do. So I think it’s safe for me to say that painting a door isn’t saving anyone’s life, but everything that surrounds it is teaching me to be obedient – No matter what the task and even if I can’t see why.
God put me here to work for others, to serve others in the way of cleaning up pine cones from a lawn, painting doors and trees, playing with children for a few minutes one day and speaking to a congregation of gypsies who need encouragement. He put me here for all of these random assignments to teach me to keep coming to Him and asking why. Jesus came as a servant and gave his life for ours. He wants to shape me into the same kind of servant who is willing to live my life to love Him and love others.
God put me here so He could have my full attention, so I could learn to lean on Him for my comfort, trust Him for my needs, so I could see the world as it is and let Him show me how to operate in the way He intended me to for the rest of my life.
Despite the fact that I now know that I’m probably not going to save the world with my time here, one thing I do know for sure is that I am in God’s hands and whatever I do and see this year – it’s in the will of God.
