Man, I can’t believe it’s already been two months since I’ve been accepted to the race. These past two months have been filled with excitement, joy, and embracing new community and I feel like I have already grown so much and I can’t wait to see how I will continue to grow over this journey.
While I have been so excited for what’s in store for me next year, I have struggled with a battle in my mind, whispers from the enemy telling me that the life I live here is insignificant to what next year holds. However, I am trying to fight that battle in my mind, my human nature that wants to become complacent in the areas where the Lord is using me this year.
My friend Caroline said something that really convicted me as we talked about the struggles I was facing. She asked me,
“Would you rather experience 18 months of growth starting now, or only 9 months of growth when you’re on the race?”
My heart was instantly convicted and I was reminded that God is just as much evident in this season of life, of anticipation, of waiting, as He will be in my next season of life full of challenge and change. God is unchanging, but I am constantly changing and learning as I try to look more like Jesus even though I fail Him every day. Although God may look different in my different seasons of life, I have to remember that God is sovereign and He is good, and a life sold out to Jesus means chasing him in every season and circumstance.
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to JESUS the founder and perfecter of our faith” – Hebrews 12:1. Man, this verse cut right to my heart. What a beautiful image that is that we can lay every weight holding us back and run freely into the arms of our father. That is the simple gospel, a God that gives us grace and love so freely that we may have abundant life.
This life isn’t mine, and man I’m so thankful for that. I am choosing to lay down the doubts and reservations in my heart that are limiting God’s power in my life here at home so that His power can rest on me as I serve Him here.
There is still so much beauty and so much life to be lived in my last year at home here in Fairview, Texas, and I want to leave knowing I served the Lord and the people around me well my senior year. Growth starts now, not the day I launch, not during training camp, but NOW.
Thanks so much for being a part of my journey. I continue to ask that you would be praying alongside me that my team and I are serving as the hands and feet of Jesus here at home as well as preparing for the journey ahead. I ask that you would pray for the name of Jesus to be made known and that his kingdom would be brought to earth. If you feel led, please feel free to donate to my journey, just click that lil’ donate button up there! Thanks again for your support, it means more than you know.
Blessings,
Mallory
