Jumping Into the Unknown

Here I am in Kentucky.  For the last three days I have been preaching to students from all over the state.  I have been to Tennessee and Southern Missouri already this summer.  I am amazed by what God is doing in the hearts of students across America. Every night I stand in front of students who are hungry for God to do something in their lives.  There is always a moment one night at camp when I become overwhelmed by the potential that I see in the lives of students.  I see where God has brought them from and where God wants to take them in life.  I can see a generation marching across the face of the world taking this Gospel to the four corners of the Earth.  It makes me excited, because I was one of them.  I was a camper, I went to youth convention, I stayed at the altars for as long as I felt God needed me there.  I am grateful for the people that saw the potential in my life to do something for the sake of the Kingdom of God.  I remember the moment when God called me into ministry.  I remember it as if that moment were yesterday. 

I was sitting at a youth convention in Irving, Texas at the age of 14.  I was in the middle of about four thousand students.  I was trying my best to get into the songs that I had never heard being sung.  With my hands stretched into the air, I tried desperately to hear from God.  Without warning, the doors in the back of the room burst open and students came in carrying the flags of the world. I stood there, dropping my hands to my side and started.  It was as if God spoke to me and said, "I have called you to preach to them." I began to beg God to pick someone else, believing that I didn't have the talent or ability.  I was and am skill less.  God continued to speak to me and eventually I gave in to him, and the rest is a short history.  I have been allowed to take part in the greatest adventure known to man...following God where ever he says go.   

There are some of you who will read the posts and wonder what it would be like to do that.  To follow God and have to trust him for tomorrow.   It is the most amazing journey that you will take in life....nothing can compare.  So get ready...lean over the edge of the abyss, the unknown. I you have enough faith and trust in God to believe that he can and will catch you when you leap into his arms, then the journey is something to hope for, not fear.