My plane leaves for Puerto Rico in just under 12 hours, and boy are there many thoughts rushing through my head...
Am I gonna be able to find my flights? How am I gonna interact with my team? How is my life going to transformed by God? What's going to happen with softball ministry when I'm gone?
The thoughts and questions just keep going on, and on, and on.
Yet, as I lift this trip up to God, all these thoughts and anxieties just disappear in the light of His grace, as He humbles me to realize that He is fully in control of my life, and I need to learn total dependence on Him and Him alone.
All I need is faith. God's already holding in His hands what needs to be done, and I just need to trust that.
As I sit here reflecting and meditating on Philippians 2:1-11, God just moves me to pray for the unity of this missions team, that we might truly be of one mind, and one love, for Christ crucified and resurrected is the one reason that unites us, and that in itself is more powerful than any earthly bias or conflict we might have when meeting and ministering with one another. Through this passage God just asks me the classic question..."Synge, what are you willing to give up so that the people I am calling you to minister to can experience my love in its fullness?"
Definitely praying that God will humble me to know that I don't need to have things my way, that I will be able to put others before myself, whether it be a coworker or someone we're sharing the Gospel with. Ultimately, I'm sent to Puerto Rico with this team so that God will bring His Name to glory, and that's what needs to be done. Ultimately, the whole team is sent there so that we can see every knee bow down before Him and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord.
Man...I'm excited, and it's just hard to put all my thoughts as one, but I'm sure as God continues guiding me on this journey, He will reveal what He needs to reveal and transform not only the lives of the people in Puerto Rico, but also of myself and my team.
For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.
- Romans 14:8
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
-Philippians 2:3
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