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I am so ready to start living out of my backpack. To serve and love on people of all races and generations, I’m just ready. 

Training camp is right around the corner, and so much is going to happen there! I’ll get to meet my whole squad, leaders, get to worship, and just general training for the field. But as excited as I am that it’s so soon now, there is the realization that spiritual warfare has come with it. It’s not to say that preparing hasn’t been hard, there have been moments. But these last two weeks have been really rough. And I know that it’s because we’re getting so close to leaving. 

I keep hearing lies like, There’s no way you’ll be able to make it. You won’t be a good missionary. And almost soothing lines like, you really could just give in to the fear. It would be so easy. Hard things have happened, whether that’s through work or family or friends. I’ve tried my best to take everything as a learning lesson, and have done pretty well until these last two weeks. What gives satan? what gives?! STAHP.

And so the Lord led me to this passage yesterday. I’ve been in it ever since. 

2 Corinthians 4:7-18

7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. 

8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; 

9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; 
10 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. 
11 For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 
12 So death is at work in us, but life in you. 
13 Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak, 
14knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. 
15 For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God. 
16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 
17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 
18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

SO good. Reading/praying through scripture has been monumental. The lesson that I’ve learned through this is -how am I going to respond when things get hard? Do I go to the Lord first? Or to people? There is a choice to be made with the lies. I can call them out for what they are, and replace them with the truth of what God says instead of dwelling. I’m thankful that was a lesson he taught me before this went full throttle. 

Thank you Lord for knowing what I need, and not giving me what I want. All for your glory and not my own.