1 Corinthians 2:9 assures that "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him." And I know this verse is in reference to the life that we will some day spend in heaven with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but I also feel like this verse could apply to the World Race as well.
Whenever I try to think about the different experiences I’m going to encounter along the way, my mind can’t even fathom what it‘s going to be like. I have absolutely no idea what to expect. But this one thing I am sure of: it is going to be the most incredibly significant, life altering adventure that I have ever embarked upon. And I am both excited about that prospect and terrified out of mind.
So, no, I don’t have any concrete expectations for this trip, but I am trusting and believing God for certain things. For instance, I believe this trip is going to be very healing for me. That over the course of the eleven months, that God is going to do such an incredible work in my life, healing very old but very deep wounds in my heart; wounds that have kept me in a perpetual, never ending search for things that satisfy outside of Christ.
It is my prayer that, on the race, I would find that satisfaction in God and in God alone. That I would cease searching for love and fulfillment in other things and other people. That God would be enough. That He would simply be enough. And that I would see Him as so.
It is my hope that the World Race will enable me to finally let go of the different things in my life that I have been so desperately clinging to and unable to break free from. That by being completely separated from it, I would find deliverance and freedom. True, lasting, redemptive freedom.
And last, but certainly not least, I pray that I will be able to walk away having grasped “how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ” not only for me, but for the world in which we live. And that I will have loved. To the edges of my fingertips, Loved. And that I would leave empty, having offered all that I have. And I would come back full, knowing that wherever God decides to take me next in this life, He is with me and He can be trusted.
“Now unto Him who is able to do exceedingly more than all we could ever think, ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us.” – Ephesians 3:20
