When God Changes the Heart

I have to be honest. For the longest time I hated to travel, making missions my worst nightmare. Kind of ironic for the way I grew up, right? My dream and goal in life was to live in one place for the rest of my life and never leave. It wasn’t until I held a small Ethiopian child that had never known what it was like to be loved, that I realized God made me to love. My biggest joy in life is simply, to love people.

 Before I came to Piedmont, actually like a month before, I was dead set on never being a missionary. Ever. But God really spoke to my heart. When I was holding that child in Africa, I couldn’t think of anywhere I’d rather be. The fact that it was 90 degrees outside and I was covered in mosquito bites, all of the sudden, didn’t even matter. Literally the entire trip I felt like God kept speaking to me through the song “God of this City” by Chris Tomlin.

“You're the God of this City

You're the King of these people

You're the Lord of this nation

You are

You're the Light in this darkness

You're the Hope to the hopeless

You're the Peace to the restless

You are

There is no one like our God

There is no one like our God

For greater things have yet to come

And greater things are still to be done in this City

Greater thing have yet to come

And greater things are still to be done in this City”

It’s interesting how easily God can change your heart, especially when your focus changes from what you want, to what God wants. For so long I just wanted to be comfortable. I didn’t want to be the new girl, or the American, and I didn’t understand why God kept moving me around and never letting me settle. It took me a long time to realize that God didn’t make us to be comfortable. As Christians we are meant to go outside our comfort zones and reach people who need Jesus. Being at Piedmont has made me miss the mission field so much.  

Being at one place and not being able to leave is now a huge stretch for me. It’s not something I’m accostomed to.  But once again, God didn’t make us to be comfortable. I guess I always dreamed of staying in one place because it was something I didn’t have. I think it’s just our human nature that causes us to desire a different life then the one God gave us.  We think that if our lives were a different way, it would turn out exactly how we want it. That’s not how God works, though.  He made us grow up a certain way in order to do the job he has for us, and what we went through growing up is going to work for Gods glory if we are following Him. This blog post isn’t very long, but when people post really long blogs, Ill be honest I only read like the first paragraph... But this is something that has been on my heart lately.  I am so excited to see what God’s plan is for me, whether it’s missions or an adventure of the unknown. God has called His children to have unwavering faith and trust that He knows what He is doing.

Until Next time..

~Tory