My Day

What excites you? What gets your heart pounding? What would you consider to be the best day ever? Maybe you would answer watching live the championship of a rivalry sports game. Perhaps you would say spending the day with a famous person you admire. Would you say a relaxing getaway vacation with your family? Or maybe for you it would be seeing a place you have always wanted to visit. Would you like to know my answer to this question? I will describe my day.

                I wake up early to watch the sun rise on the African soil. The sunlight covers the land and awakens all sleeping things. I walk down the streets to find beautiful children playing with tires, rolling them down the street and laughing as they chase each other. I look on the other side as I walk the dusty road and see a market full of merchants selling all sorts of things. I have been studying the word in depth for 3 months and have learned so much. God has challenged me and stretched me beyond my limits. Today is the day I get to visit the Maasai village. These people still wear their tribal clothes and live as they have for hundreds of years. I will get to witness to these amazing people. We will work in their schools and show them the love of God through our humility to serve them. As they see me help their children with schoolwork, they will see love. A love that is far greater than mine and exceeds anything they have ever seen before. The love in me of Jesus Christ! They will see the glow that I have on my face as I minister to them. Perhaps they will hear the wonderful message I will get to share as I evangelize to them. Or maybe while I am there that day and I work in one of their churches, I will remind one of the believers of the faithfulness of God. Whatever the outcome, my visit there will be a blessing! Perhaps that night for supper I will eat goat meat on a stick with rice, bananas, and mangos. That night, after a long day’s work, I will fall asleep outside under the stars, gazing at the moon. The stars are endless in number; impossible to count. These stars may have been some of the ones Abraham was gazing at when he remembered the promise the Lord gave him, “… I will bless you, and multiplying, I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore…”  This was not the first time Abraham had had a divine intervention with the Lord. Genesis chapter 12 gives us the words God spoke, “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you.” As Abraham obediently answered God, so have I, as I leave my family and friends to venture with God to the Land that He is showing me... Africa.

That day I chased the dream God placed before me. Because of that day, there is a little less darkness in Africa. And because maybe, just maybe, that day the angels rejoiced as one of God’s precious children returned to Him. A lost soul being made new! There is no greater calling, than to proclaim the love of God. That day, I recklessly followed Jesus. Despite the dusty roads of Tanzania, the layers of mosquitos, the interesting food, the nights spent sleeping outside with who knows what other creatures, despite the sickness that will come, the sorrow I will encounter and times of loneliness, if those are the things I must go through and endure for the reward of the day I described to you above, I gladly accept. I willingly take the risk! Because, if I do not who will? I am not going to let the Lord pass me by because I am afraid of a little heartache. No. I will not let the chance of bringing glory to my King be given to someone else because I do not want to step out of my comfort zone. Here I am LORD! Send Me! I am ready to follow you.

That is what my day looks like…the day that takes my breath away. That is the day I could repeat an endless amount of times.