Community living is hard. World Race community living is just insane. Spending every second of every day with the same seven people, especially when they are all women, is madness. You can imagine the emotions and high tensions. Living in community causes stress and LOTS of emotions that are bound to be noticed by one of the seven, but that’s just it; they notice things in you that you can’t see yourself. The best part about World Race community? Everyone has their eyes set on God and your best interests at hand. They care deeply for you because God cares deeply for you. They fight for you, even when you won’t fight for yourself.
This month has been a battle. A battle against past wounds and pushing through the deceptive fog the enemy casts around situations. He wants you to see the situation with a blurred and corrupted view. Leaving you thinking that you are alone; the victim of an unexpected and unfair anomaly. This simply isn’t true and my team has shown me this. They’ve been on the other side of the fog shining a light, pleading and beckoning for me to stop staring at the ground, defeated, and instead turn my eyes upward to Christ.
One important thing about the Race and your teammates; they can’t turn your eyes upward. It’s a decision YOU have to make. You have to choose to abandon the chains that hold you to the past and give Satan back the key, choosing to stop letting him dictate your outlook on situations. Allow God to move in you and through your teammates to build you and restore you back to who you are supposed to be. Receive with open hands the things they see in you that you can’t see for yourself. It’s a battle that you and only you are in control of. It’s a hard lesson I learned this month and one that’s going to take time and a lot of “letting go and letting God.”
This has been the transformation in me thus far. A blog post on how God has loved me been present through my ministry is coming.
