If I’m being completely honest, when I first started looking into the World Race, I didn’t necessarily feel God “calling” me to do it.
A snapshot of my life about 6 months ago…
I spent the majority of my time in a lightbulb factory. My purpose in being here is to pay off student debt to be able to go overseas again. Saving money is slow, even though my job pays well. When I look into the future, I don’t see much changing for several years to come. It depresses me a little bit. My heart longs to be overseas doing missions!
When I prayed, I didn’t necessarily feel like God was telling me to wait or to go ahead. It was as if He was just leaving it up to me. I felt like a child slowly edging toward the cookie jar, eyes on their parents, waiting to see if their parent was going to stop them. But He didn’t stop me.
Someone once told me, don’t wait for a ‘yes’. Keep going until you get a ‘no’. I want my life to glorify God. And coincidentally, I believe that my purpose on this earth is to do exactly that! Bring Him glory! And I also believe that whatever I end up doing, as long as it brings glory to God, is within God’s will for my life.
So when the thought of doing the World Race came to my mind, I decided to do it!
The idea of traveling the world is obviously exciting! But if that’s why I’m going on this trip, I don’t deserve your support. But that’s not what excites me the most. I get excited when I see pictures of other world racers praying with people. I get excited when I hear stories about what the Lord is doing through them! I get chills when I think about the people I am going to interact with who may have never heard about the Good News of Jesus Christ before!
Those people are why I want to do this trip. I am called to those people. I know that for sure! God’s heart breaks for them, and so does mine!
