During my first semester of my last year in college, I was searching for graduate programs. I wanted to pursue higher education all the way to obtaining my PhD. I spent countless hours talking to admissions offices, writing the perfect personal statement, and tweaking my resume. However, when it came to submitting my applications for the many graduate schools I was applying for, I just couldn’t hit the submit button.
It took some time of reflecting and a whole lot of praying to realize that no matter how much I wanted to attend graduate school next year, it wasn’t what God had planned for me.
See, I’ve always felt called to the mission field and have spent the last four years of my life learning about the world and human connection in preparation to be a missionary. I could so clearly hear God calling me, and telling me that it was time to be a missionary.
This realization terrified me completely, but despite the fear, I continued to pray asking God where He wanted me to go.
I would look up at the four different maps I had in my room on each wall and earnestly pray. My spirit would start thinking about countries like Guatemala, Romania, and Albania. The next day I would feel a calling to go to Turkey and Jordan, I thought to myself there i
s no way I’m going to find a trip that takes me to all these places. I must be hearing things… there is no way… it’s impossible.
Soon after, I reached out to my dear friends and asked them to pray for clarity, and a mission trip that covered all these countries. During spring break, my friend sent me an exact text that said “Elora, you’re not going to believe this, but I found your trip” and she sent me the link to World Race!
The Lord led me to World Race through the countries that He placed on my heart. What I saw as impossible, He knew to be possible. He made it clear and provided the exact trip He had called me to.
So why am I going to the World Race? Because I’ve been called, and I am answering that call with my absolute, undeniable, and unreputable YES! I am choosing His adventure over my own worldly and desirable comforts.I am choosing what seems completely impossible to achieve. My purpose has always been in what the world has deemed impossible, but I know that with God, it’s completely and irrevocably possible.
