Being sent out

Welp, we only have two weeks left before we are home! How time has flown! As excited as I am about going home, I am also really sad to leave Lira. I believe each one of us has come to a point where Lira is our home, it’s not just a place we’re visiting. We have become each others family and we have friends surrounding us in Lira. It’s to the point where we can’t even walk through town without seeing someone we know. It’s great!
 
Anyways, I don’t have much to talk about this week, I just want to share something I noticed God has been doing throughout the last four months in my life, but also in the lives of my team members, who I consider as family. Before coming on this trip, I knew that God had a lot in store. I knew He was going to grow me, and those on my team, He was going to stretch us, and strengthen us. But I didn’t realize how much confidence He would give us through His purpose for our lives.
            When I met my team just a few months ago, I didn’t know what I was doing, and I definitely didn’t know what I would be doing when I came home from Uganda. And it didn’t take long for me to realize that the majority of my team mates were just as in the dark as I was. At training camp, just about all of us voiced that one of our desires for this trip was for God to give us direction on where He would have us when we went home in may. Little did we know that God would do much more than simply tell us where to go. I believe we all felt that He would tell us, but what I have seen Him do is much more than just tell us. God has given us a confidence even in the unknown of going home. To some of us, yes God has revealed His plans, to others He has not, but despite this, Jesus has been giving us something greater than direction. Jesus has been teaching us what it means to have a confidence in what is not seen.
            Right now, I don’t know what job I will have, if I will go to school, or what church will be like when I go home. But for once in my life I am not worried because I know Jesus is going to work out the details in His timing. I am not confident of this because of anything I can do to work out the details. In fact, I know I usually screw up the details. But I’m confident because Jesus has been teaching me how safely I rest in His love and that my purpose is for Him. And I have seen the same lessons being taught to my team mates. I feel like the disciples must have after Jesus died, was resurrected and was taken up to heaven. They were un-certain, and afraid at first, but then because of knowing Jesus they became confident in the purpose Jesus had given them for their lives. And they boldly walked in that. And I have seen my team do the same. Three months ago, most of us were un-certain and afraid of what we were to do with our lives when we came home. But now, although some of us are still uncertain, we are no longer afraid. We are confident of our purpose in Christ, despite whether or not we know the direction we are supposed to walk in.
 
I feel like God has brought this team to this point of confidence so that we can now be sent out once more to the world. Yeah, we’ve been in the world doing missions this whole time, but never have I felt this confident about going out into my life and being a disciple. God is good and His name will be praised!
Welp, we only have two weeks left before we are home! How time has flown! As excited as I am about going home, I am also really sad to leave Lira. I believe each one of us has come to a point where Lira is our home, it’s not just a place we’re visiting. We have become each others family and we have friends surrounding us in Lira. It’s to the point where we can’t even walk through town without seeing someone we know. It’s great!
 
Anyways, I don’t have much to talk about this week, I just want to share something I noticed God has been doing throughout the last four months in my life, but also in the lives of my team members, who I consider as family. Before coming on this trip, I knew that God had a lot in store. I knew He was going to grow me, and those on my team, He was going to stretch us, and strengthen us. But I didn’t realize how much confidence He would give us through His purpose for our lives.
            When I met my team just a few months ago, I didn’t know what I was doing, and I definitely didn’t know what I would be doing when I came home from Uganda. And it didn’t take long for me to realize that the majority of my team mates were just as in the dark as I was. At training camp, just about all of us voiced that one of our desires for this trip was for God to give us direction on where He would have us when we went home in may. Little did we know that God would do much more than simply tell us where to go. I believe we all felt that He would tell us, but what I have seen Him do is much more than just tell us. God has given us a confidence even in the unknown of going home. To some of us, yes God has revealed His plans, to others He has not, but despite this, Jesus has been giving us something greater than direction. Jesus has been teaching us what it means to have a confidence in what is not seen.
            Right now, I don’t know what job I will have, if I will go to school, or what church will be like when I go home. But for once in my life I am not worried because I know Jesus is going to work out the details in His timing. I am not confident of this because of anything I can do to work out the details. In fact, I know I usually screw up the details. But I’m confident because Jesus has been teaching me how safely I rest in His love and that my purpose is for Him. And I have seen the same lessons being taught to my team mates. I feel like the disciples must have after Jesus died, was resurrected and was taken up to heaven. They were un-certain, and afraid at first, but then because of knowing Jesus they became confident in the purpose Jesus had given them for their lives. And they boldly walked in that. And I have seen my team do the same. Three months ago, most of us were un-certain and afraid of what we were to do with our lives when we came home. But now, although some of us are still uncertain, we are no longer afraid. We are confident of our purpose in Christ, despite whether or not we know the direction we are supposed to walk in.
 
I feel like God has brought this team to this point of confidence so that we can now be sent out once more to the world. Yeah, we’ve been in the world doing missions this whole time, but never have I felt this confident about going out into my life and being a disciple. God is good and His name will be praised!