"Jesus is most interested in our today."
Last week, I was in Georgia at training camp, preparing to spend the next two months in Ometepe Island, Nicaragua. I was unsure how helpful this training would be and was anxious to get to Nicaragua and jump right in. Now at the end of it, if I would have just come to training camp and then came home, I would´ve come back with a changed heart more on fire for Jesus.
I realized expectations and things on my heart that I needed to let go of and give up to God. Our team got to bond and connect in a way that without camp, I don't think would've been as natural and fruitful as it was. I feel like I've known these girls for months, not days. We also got to learn a little bit more about Nicaraguan culture and the differences we might experience there. The most important thing I took away from training was from a talk on the last day.
The talk was about how we only have today, and aren´t promised a tomorrow. We don´t live that way today, especially in the United States. I'm so worried about the future: what my career will be, who my friends will be, who my husband will be, and what happens when that all changes? My thoughts and how I live my life are so future-based and it took those four days and that sentence above to really notice.
What would my days look like if I really lived life Jesus was only interested in my today? How different would they look? How would that change what I say? How I act? How I spend my time? The way I view things happening in my life? The way I view Jesus?
I don´t know how those things will look when I get back to America or how they will look the rest of my days here, or if I will get another day here or in America. Every day that Jesus allows me to wake up is a day that Jesus is truly interested in doing something through me. I don´t want to live one more day thinking about the future and missing out on an opportunity God has for me to experience Him or to further His kingdom.
Jesus is most interested in your today and He paid a great price for you to be alive today: so what are you going to do with it? There really is no day but today.
