10 More Days

Dear family,

I hope you are all doing well. I wanted to give you a bit of an update on where I’m at with The World Race and just in life in general as this year comes to a close.

I have 10 days until I Launch on the World Race. Yes, you heard me right, 10 days. It’s coming up very fast, and it hits me hard every day I think about it.

10 days with my family, friends, loved ones.

10 days to serve all I come in contact with.

10 days to do whatever God wants me to do right where I am right now.

Just 10 more days.

Personally, I’ve been counting down the days for months. The anticipation for big plot points to come in your story is exciting and frightening all at once.

Do I have my doubts about leaving?

I have come to accept that God can use me in any way he wants to. Wherever he points me I will go, no questions asked.

Recently he asked me to do something just a little life-changing.

Go travel the world, love and serve the people I come in contact with, and be a light to the lost. I said I’d go, here I am following through with my word. 

One of my good friends went on a walk with me this past week, and we talked about my missionary trip. Both of our hearts break for the broken and lost in our world.

But oddly enough, my heart hurts more for the lost here in the USA who think they’re fine and dandy.

Wait, I’m confused Mitch, why in the world are you leaving then if your heart yearns for the lost here in the USA?

My very processed and prayerfully considered answer is Obedience.

God knows where my heart is. He knows what I desire. He knows the skills and gifts that I want to use for His glory.

More importantly, He knows the road ahead of me. He knows what I need to learn, experience, and live out.

The Potter knows how to make this Pot exactly how it needs to be made.

What needs to be broken and taken out of me. 

I can’t tell God what I think He should do.

That’s the most prideful thing I can do in this life.

I’m here on this earth to go and serve wherever, whenever, whatever He calls me to. It’s been made very clear to me that God wants me to GO. He wants me to struggle, to cry out to Him, and walk alongside Him through every part of my life.  

That’s why I’m going.

God wants to do something with me. I don’t know what exactly, but He knows I’m willing to do it whatever it may be. 

I would like to ask for prayer in these upcoming 10 days.

That God would break me down build me back up into the man of God He desires me to be.

That I would be ready and eager to leave when the time comes.

That God would continue to provide the extra financial support I need while I am overseas.

And lastly that you yourself would take up the call to be a missionary. 

To love and serve the lost with the intention of sharing the Gospel any chance you get.

That’s my definition of a missionary.

There’s no super special calling like some people make it out to be. Jesus said that everyone should go and make disciples of all the nations.

Not just me.

Not just your pastor.

It’s your calling just as much as it’s mine.

If you would like to help me reach my secondary financial goal copy this link (at the bottom of the post.) into your browser and prayerfully decide how God would have you go about that.

Thank you so much for your prayers and support up until today.

Please don’t stop.

Until next time,

-Mitchell

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