Hello! I know that there was a lot of time passed between my last post and this one. Sorry, it is so easy to let life and uncertainty get in the way. This is my first real post so I’m gonna talk more about WHY I started this blog. Why we do things is so crucial to if we do well with them.
How Jesus calls everyone uniquely
I have always had a lot of anxiety about being in front of people, lots of stage fright and low confidence. So I’m not really sure what drew me to theater, I loved music and pretending as well as dancing so maybe that was it. All I knew was that I loved it. Me and my family have been very focused on the fine arts ever since I was little, there was always music or art to be found around our house. So as I grew I was in several different shows and productions. A few years back I decided to take a break from theater to be more involved in my choir, I didn’t really think about it a lot and I soon got pulled away from it. So about a year ago there I was just going about my life when I saw an audition opportunity for a local theater company that I had done a few shows with. God knew what He was doing even at the early stages of this interest, His plan was working backstage in my life. The show was one that I had only heard of once before and I knew literally nothing about it, I saw that it didn’t conflict with choir so I went for it. I ended up getting into the play as a member of the chorus; the cast (that’s theater speak for people in the play) was very small, we’re talking 15 people. The thing that I mostly noticed was that there were a lot of young people my age and younger in it as well. So we started rehearsals and all was well, I mean almost all. Around week three I noticed a strange feeling I would get after each rehearsal, it was a weird mixture of sadness and a heavy feeling, like I was carrying a bag of bricks on my head. This was not normal for me when I was in a play, considering how much I love theater (and it’s a lot ya’ll).
So there I was feeling down and out, I could not understand these moods and frustrations. I got so down that I turned to the one who knows me through and through, “Why Jesus?” I would ask over and over again. “Why do I feel so lost and so depressed?” I asked so many times for Him to help me see the cause and His answer was always “Wait.” So I waited and waited until one night on the way home from practice He gave me my answer, and it could not have been any clearer. I realized that I was feeling a weight for the people I was acting alongside, many of them were not believers. To be honest I’m not sure if I was the only Christian there. After that everything changed, now that I knew my mission I had the most real and profound joy that I have ever felt. God called me into His plan for my life and put me in a mission field that I was passionate about and it took me a whole month to realize it! It was amazing to know that I could be used to share the love of Jesus with others and to have a mission that I loved. I am smiling right now thinking of it. God can call us into things in our lives that may be normal or just a part of routine living and use us to be lights for Him. We don’t always need to go to foreign countries or to heal the lepers ( but if you are you go my friend!) sometimes where we are needed is just out our front door. When God calls He has a purpose and a plan for you that is good, the thing that makes all the difference is if we are willing to move.
Go and Obey where God calls
God’s great mission for us is this, “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. ” This is what we are called to do, to bring salt and light to every corner of the world(and no I do not believe that we live on a flat earth : D) In future posts I will get into more detail about how I was used by God and what I learned from that time; I don’t think that my life will ever be the same. So what the main point of this is: God calls us each to our own mission, it is up to us though how we will respond. Thank you so much for reading! Please comment any questions or comments you have!
Salt & Light 