Great Is Thy Faithfulness (Part 2)

DISCLAIMER: Please read part 1 in the blog before this to know what’s going on!!

…My solution? Apply for a teaching job at a missionary school in Bogotá, Colombia for the 2021 spring semester.

Now after reading that last sentence, you’re probably thinking “Excuse me?? You’re doing what now??” Well… you read that correctly. I really did send in an application to a school in South America, and I even got the job and was starting the paperwork for my Colombian VISA and everything. I was 100% ready to move into an apartment in a city of over 10 million people, in a different continent, by myself, for 6 months. I figured that at least this way I have a MUCH higher chance of doing international mission work next semester whether the WorldRace does or not. In addition, a lot of the plans I had for after the spring semester lined up better with me serving in Colombia than if I were to go on the 6-month gap year trip. It only made sense to go to Colombia and just do the WorldRace next fall like I originally decided.

Three days before I was planning to inform the WordRace I was no longer leaving with them in January but was moving to Colombia, God placed a complete stranger in my path and shook my whole perspective by which I had been basing these life-changing decisions. I came to realize that although I had been praying and seeking guidance throughout all these choices, my heart was stuck on what I wanted my future to look like and trying my darn best to make that happen. God used this stranger to show me what it really looks like to lay down every one of your dreams, plans, passions, and desires before the Lord. To be able to say “yeah, I want and hope to do these things in the future, but if God pulls the plug at the last moment and I have no idea where to go or what to do instead, all the more glory to God for the amazing and surprising ways He will work through me”. To be able to fully and truly want to obey God one step at a time to wherever, whenever, however, and with whoever; and to be singing God’s praises with gladness through it all. 

And let me tell ya, there is a whole new kind of joy, excitement, and fire for the Lord when you can honestly do that.

After a lot more prayer and really searching for obedience before the Lord, I decided to the WorldRace this January after all! I have no idea what the trip will look like next spring, or if it will even happen. Nor do I have any idea if I will get to do the things I have planned out for after this trip either. But for the first time in my life, I’m okay with that. Through all of this deliberation, I have drawn closer to my Abba Father than I ever have! And through this new intimacy with Him, God has been showing me reason after reason to be continuously thankful for why He led me to stay home this fall!

This change in attitude God has given me not only has me so excited for what He is going to do on the WorldRace in January, but also for what He is going to do in each day. When you can say “Alright God, this is all You. Lead me wherever I’m going next, only go with me”, there is so much He wants to teach and give you that you start to see and hear in every. single. day. No matter how unexciting or uncertain your life may seem, God wants to bring life to it and give lessons through it. Don’t take the monotony of each day for granted. As this stranger showed me, you truly never know what God will do through you and around you once you start to honestly listen to and obey what He’s telling you–and He will give you life through that. There is truly nothing sweeter than coming before the Lord in complete obedience. <33

 

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;

His mercies never come to an end;

They are new every morning;

Great is Your faithfulness.

~ Lamentations 3:22-23

 

THANK YOU to everyone who actually made it this far and read both posts!!

– Brianna 🙂