“For the heavens are higher than
the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your
thoughts.” Isaiah 55:9
When I
accepted Christ in 2005… yes ten years ago… I knew what God’s calling on my
life was… to be a missionary in Africa. That was all I got. He had called me to
Africa and to spread the word of Jesus’ love to the continent of Africa. Now
knowing this I like to tell you that I sign up to an agency and hopped a plane
to the beautiful continent of Africa and have been doing this for the last ten
years of my life…. Oh one could hope!!!!
No.. I was
a married to a non-Christian man, with a two year old and one on the way living
in the middle of a town where everyone knew my husband and I was outsider. I
was a stay home mother who was just grasping the idea of living as a Christian
with a husband who had problems with alcohol and drugs and trying to keep it
together without going insane with the idea.. was my husband going to come home
that night.
Now
looking back on what God did for my life and how He prepared me for the task ahead…
just has me on my knees in front of him saying “WHATEVER!!!” Whatever you want
me to do… I will do it… I have the faith that you will carry me through!!! I
trust you whole heartily and I will obey your every command that you have on my
life!!! Without question!!!
The journey
to Africa was a very hard one… and to me a quick one… yes it was a nine year
road of planning and trusting God in the hardest and darkest times in my
life. I lived through my husband leaving
me, a move back to where I grew up, a bad job, to finding a new church, a new
job and the possibility of my heart’s desire to be a missionary. When the possibility
of going to Africa… Uganda… I jumped to
the possibility of finally living the life that God had plan for me.
But it was not an easy road to this wonderful
place that I now call home. I had to go through an ugly court case that left both
of my children in the states while I traveled to Uganda for my first three
month stay. That was the toughest decision I had to make and I got a lot of judgment
from Christians and non-Christians about that choice. But I still obey God and
went through with His plan.
For the
first time in my life, when I step off the plane, I felt I had reached my home!
I felt at peace, yet my heart ached for my children that I had to leave in the
states. But like our bible verse says His ways are higher than mine! If I had
brought my children the first time around I would never have seen God’s bigger
picture! I never would have seen the vision He had on my life and the lives of
my children. I never would be writing about the globe foundation that has come
from this one little trip to Uganda.
To tell
you the truth, both of my children have a better knowledge of God and what it
takes to follow God when He calls you to do the impossible. Both have grown in
ways that are far better then what I could do, and both trust God more than the
day they believed that Jesus was their savior. Both are willing to give up the
ways of the states and head to a place that their mother calls home now.
So when
you hear the voice of God calling you to does something that does not line up
with your lifestyle or seems impossible… just remember God’s ways are higher
than your own! And He will push you to the place of impossible and then take
over!!!
So the question
is do you have the faith to believe that His ways are higher than your own?
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