Why am I going on the race? The truth is, I don’t have the exact answer. I know God called me, but why? That is a question I’m still piecing together myself. “Why me” is such a common question we as humans ask ourselves all the time. When God sent me his message to go on the race, I was both excited, but I was also like “why me?” Why do I have to go on a different path than everyone else? Why do I have to live in less than optimal living conditions for nine months? Why do I have to leave my friends and family?
“God doesn’t choose the equipped, he equips the chosen” And God has been equipping me for this journey all my life. It wasn’t that I wasn’t ready for college, nor was it the burning desire to use my skills in real world, it was that I was called at this time to use my skills for the benefit of others.
Now why I am excited to go on the race is a completely different story. I am excited to abandon the world I am comfortable with and know truly what it means to follow Jesus. I’m excited to unite myself with those around the world. But what I am most excited about is to be in kinship with others.
One of my favorite books is Tattoos on the Heart and it allowed me to realize a couple things. I don’t want to be service provider and service recipient, and I especially don’t want them to think there is a high moral distance between me and those I am with. I want to be with those I am serving in all their afflictions. Perhaps what I am most excited about is sharing in other’s struggles. I want to be in kinship with EVERYONE and for me that means not just serving others but being one with others.
World Race is offering me an opportunity to be in Kinship with people from all over God’s kingdom! Letting ME be part of their live just as much as I will be part of theirs.
