We were asked to write a blog about how we felt before leaving on this mission trip. Here is what I’m expecting…
So basically, I am really excited about this trip! I am looking forward to every part of it.
I know there will be hard times, as well as really great times. I
ultimately expect the unexpected. God cannot be predicted and I don’t
want to try. I’m praying that He will continually be with us, work
through us, strengthen us, and use us to help others. I want to be open
and ready for anything God is leading us into, to have us following
Him. I hope to meet amazing people and develop good friendships that
will last long after the trip has ended.
I really don’t know what to expect, other than what is obvious.
I expect challenge.
I expect change.
I know one thing that will keep me from reaching my full potential on
this team, and that’s ME. I hope I don’t get in the way of what God’s
trying to do. I hope the team will build each other up and try and help
everyone draw closer to God, as I will try to do. I don’t want it to be
about me or us, I want it to be about GOD and the people we’re serving.
I don’t want to ever complain! I want us all to express the love of
Christ and be a witness to others.
I want to always be in God’s will. I expect Him to provide for what He
wants us to do. Well, I guess I expect Him to be Himself, ha. I want to
be in tune and listening to God so He can better lead and use me.
I am looking forward to the discipleship part of it, also, as well as every part!
I hope that when I come back from the mission trip I will continue to
grow and have a different perspective on things. I expect to learn a
lot. I don’t want to do too much expecting, if much at all, but I do
think we should expect God to do things.
1 John 3:2-3
“Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not
yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like
him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope in him
purifies himself, just as he is pure.”
