I can’t do this!

Is anyone else
completely freaked out by The World Race at times? Don’t get me wrong,
there are many things I am excited about and looking forward to on this journey.
But sometimes when I’m alone driving in my car or sitting in my room and I
start to think about what it is that I am really getting into, it’s terrifying.

It feels like I am
about to jump out of a plane with no parachute. Which maybe I will (with a
parachute of course)! I am leaving my known, comfortable upbringing and
venturing across the globe with a bunch of strangers to reach out to people in
some of the worst places of the world.

But looking back, the
best times of my life have been when it was 100% God calling the shots, and
it had nothing to do with me. When people tell me how brave I was to go to
Kenya alone, I tell them it wasn’t me. I was scared of going, but God called me
there and was with me through it all. I believe God is calling me to the Race
now to grow me and stretch me. I know that this will be painful, but I think it
is exactly what I need right now.

I recently read a
book that boldly stated that the popular Christian catchphrase “God won’t
give you more than you can handle” is baloney. There have been many times
in my life when I have claimed “I can’t” do something and then God in His sense
of humor comes along and sticks me right in the middle of a situation to show  that “I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me.”(Philippians 4:13)

John 15:5 

“ I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who
remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can
do nothing.”

Matthew 19:26

Jesus looked at them intently and said, “Humanly speaking,
it is impossible. But with God everything is possible.”