Training-Oh, How He Loves Us

How incredible is God’s love for us?!  A huge part of our training for The World Race included breaking down any walls in our hearts that could keep us from experiencing the fullness of God’s love for us.  My personal story includes God shaving down the layers I have built up in my heart with things I didn’t even know where issues in my life.  It’s such a freeing feeling when there is so much weighing your heart down and in a short instance God comes in and wipes that away and fills your heart up with his love and joy for us.  For the last 30 years of my life I’ve built up this tough outer facade, proving to everyone that I can handle anything and that nothing ever gets to me.  The only problem with that is that I have been fooling myself all this time into thinking that my heart was ok.  Over a series of events in a few short days, God showed me that I don’t have to put on a show for him…he loves me exactly the way I am and wants to free me from these things that have been wearing away at my heart all these years.  So now,

 

 

I am free from fear.  I am free from rejection.  I am free from needing to prove myself to people.  I am free to experience God in a radical and powerful way.  I am free from expectations.  I am free from indifference.  I am free to forgive.  I am free to embrace God’s love and pour it out into the rest of the world! 

 

This is just the beginning of an incredible journey and I’m so thankful that God is allowing me the opportunity to spread His kingdom and serve with some of the most amazing people He created!!!