See loving the people I come to serve is easy . Its natural. Kids are the apple of my eye. Orphans even more so…
Yet there is this thing called COMMUNITY on the World Race.
Yea you have heard about it.
It looks like the people outside of your circle the people in your journey that aren’t naturally the people you would gravitate to.
Yesterday we had major breakthrough in the orphanage we are working with. Gods hand reached down from heaven and moved the kids .
The kids loved harder then they have, healing took place , life and love was resorted into the kids.
I went to bed excited , I went to bed moved and I was satisfied in the work God did in the kids.
Yet then i woke up …
I woke up and God showed me that a work in my heart has been made.
Confused and wondering for answers I pondered on what God was doing in me….
See when going on missions trips you are a oracle , you go and do the dirty work and pour out . Thinking of yourself isn’t first thought. Thinking of how God is molding you more like him hasn’t been an initial observance.
But then God…
See last night was powerful for the children but it was equally powerful for me. My prospective changed. My heart for my team changed.
God spoke to me about His Greatest commandments.
1. Love the Lord God with all your hear and your soul and with you mind. Matthew 22:37
2. Love your neighbor as yourself Matthew 22:38
See I had the whole loving God part down I thought. He wrecked me in that concept.
Yet what even messed me up even more was God asking me to love my team. My neighbors .
Love them in their quirks,
Love them in their differences,
Love them as Children of the most High King!
That I haven’t been doing.
That is where I know God is trying to shape me in.
He told me , “ya its good to love me” , But what about your team ?
The first reaction was no how dare you question my love for my team.
Second – um wait? God your tripn today!
3rd But….
well have I been loving them like I should?
Have I been pouring into each and every one of them?
Talk about a horse size pill to swallow!
But I felt and urge – a tugging in my heart to dig in deeper with my team.
See God has placed each one of them with me for hHs will , His purpose , to grow me and shape me into his image.
I was humbled.
Not shamed.
Convicted.
But not struggling with contempt
I chose to choose change. I chose to choose joy, I chose to look deep inside myself and see an area he is asking me to rid.
So I choose to change.
I choose life, and I want it as abundantly.
I want to become the best version of myself.
I choose to become all He has called me to be.
I will love my team deeper, and wider then any ocean .
I choose to dig in deep and let down walls.
I choose life because living life with my team is abundant living!
I challenge you today to love your neighbor.
Love them not just because God is asking you to but because you want to become his heart.
Love deeper because there is no more radical way to serve and embrace the call on your life .
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