When I graduated a year ago I was paralyzed by the thought of change, crippled by the endless directions my life could go, and trapped in the lie that I was bound to the expectations others had placed on my life.
A year later, I have experienced the Lord’s faithfulness in more ways than can be named, I have seen the power of Jesus’ sacrifice radically change lives of college students, and I have felt grief and a hardened heart become mended and softened by God’s kept promises.
I have experienced loneliness, and a longing for community & the Lord has answered those longings and prayers in His perfect timing. I’ve seen people leveraging their lives for the sake of the gospel and I have experienced the Church in ways that can only be echos & glimpses of heaven.
Along the way God placed a calling over me to be part of @theworldrace & the growth, conviction, and *learned* submission I have experienced since that initial call has been such a testament to the God we get to love and serve. I am an instrument to be used for the kingdom and being able to see others be led by the Spirit well and in obedient joy is so humbling to watch and learn from.
A year later I am renewed & encouraged by change, I am in awe of all the beautiful paths God could take me on, & I have been redeemed and restored in the knowledge that I am not my own, that I am not others, but that I am THE I am’s. We are beloved, cherished, made new, & set free from the chains of this world, this society, and these false hopes. A year later I am convinced of the Lord’s faithfulness because of the pursuit other’s have for Him.
A sustainable and passionate relationship with Lord truly happens when we relinquish ALL our desires to Him & find peace knowing that a compartmentalized faith is not where freedom lies. Our liberation is fully felt when we accept the fact that God already fully knows us, has fully searched us, & still sees us as worthy of Himself. He is worth ourselves.
