one day more..

"Tomorrow we'll discover

What our God in Heaven has in store!

One more dawn

One more day

One day more!

-from Les Miserables

When I wrote the title for this blog... I began to sing the song from Les Mis. The funny part of that was all I knew was..."One day more!" So I looked it up to see what it really said and that was what I got. Amazing! It's so perfect to what I was going to write.

Tomorrow I leave for Mesa, Arizona to live for a year as a Life Teen Missionary. Some people reading this blog may be thinking, "What the heck is that?" To explain a little, because honestly, that's about as much as I know, I'll be living in community with five other young adults as we serve Life Teen International. We will be working at the headquarters, serving at St. Tim's, going on mission trips, and living a life of prayer. We will become "totally concecrated and separated unto the Lord", as Dr. Michelle Corral would say.

Now, if you thought that was the exciting part, you have no idea! Yesterday morning, I woke up with some anxiety about packing..then thinking that maybe I made a haste decision and I shouldn't move and be a part of this program. I ended up checking my email and there was only the daily devotional that I subscribe to. This is what it said:

“Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot of Haran,

and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram,

and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan.

But when they came to Haran, they settled there.

Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.

The Lord had said to Abram,

‘Leave your country, your people and your father’s household

and go to the land I will show you.

I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you;

I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing’”

—Genesis 11:31

All I could think was... GOD IS SO GOOD! This is what makes all of this so exciting for me. God has got this plan and even though I'm not fully aware of it all, I know that His plan is for good. It's funny, because if you continue to read the story of about Abram, you'll see that the land that God calls Abram to is Canaan. Canaan was not some beautiful place with succulence and richness, but was a land of severe famine. What in the world was God putting this guy thru? Abram was faithful, moved when God said move and stop when He said stop. He knew that God would take care of him. Abram acted on extreme faith. That's why he's referred to as the Patron Father of Faith. That was just the beginning of the many tests.

That was the beginning of many blessings.

I know that God has many tests and blessings planned to come my way. I just pray that I'm faithful to God's call. So pray for me. It's not easy to leave family, friends, ministry and the comfort of home. But when I pray, I have peace and I know that I know that I know.. that I'm in God's hands and He will keep me and provide for my every need.

Last weekend, I was at a service that a 16 yr old preachers daughter spoke at. She said, "You have to have complete faith! If you doubt God, you kick Him out." Bold words from a 16 yr old preaching to a bunch of adults up to 5 or 6 times her age. But it was the truth.

Well, I'm signing off now. Time to have breakfast. Yum!