7 months.
7 months until I’m home.
What does that mean? Does that mean my race will be over? Does that mean I have to go back to school? Does that mean I have to find a job? Does that mean I have to move? Does that mean I finally go into the military?
I don’t know.
It’s scary.
All these options are constantly going through my head all the time.
But it’s 7 months away so I don’t have to worry about it right now, right?
I’m 20 years old and I have no idea what I want to do with my life.
And here is where I’m wrong; my life is not mine. My life doesn’t belong to me. God gave me life therefore it is His life. God determined a master plan for my life therefore it is His plan.
A year ago I had absolutely no idea I’d be living on three different continents doing ministry, yet here I am in Ecuador. I didn’t plan to do this; God hit me out of the blue one day with this crazy thing called The World Race, and I know this is exactly where God wants me right now.
So why do I worry about it so much? Why am I so caught up in what I will make of my life?
~Matthew 6:25-34
(25) “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? (26) Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? (27) Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
(28) “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. (29) Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. (30) If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? (31) So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ (32) For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. (33) But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. (34) Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Its right there. ITS. RIGHT. THERE. Its in the middle of the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus says “DO NOT WORRY”, Because he’s got you. He’s got a plan for your life, He will provide, all you have to do is “seek first his kingdom and his righteousness”. It’s so simple yet we make it so hard. Literally all we have to do is Love God, Love people & make disciples and God will take care of the rest. THAT is what we are called to do, not worry about what will become of our lives. I am simply a vessel, I am a tool to carry God’s love into the world, that is what God designed me to do. Its so easy for me to write this or you to read this and think “yeah, that’s right! Gods got me!” yet we fail to live it out. We fail to live out Gods plan for our lives because ultimately we’re too scared. We’re too comfortable with our lives. We’re afraid to let go of certain things and certain people. Yet we are called to be bold. Boldness happens when you stop trying to fight God about what you want for your life and submit to his plan. Boldness is stepping out of your comfort zone because God is calling you higher than your comfort zone. Boldness is being so vulnerable you have nothing and nobody to help you or back you up, except God. That is Boldness. As Christians we are called to be bold in our faith, not worrying about today or tomorrow or what I’m going to do with my life in 7 months.
Stop worrying and start being bold.
