Kevin

I must confess that the situation I find myself in now is not at all what I expected to be in. God has been at work on my heart over the past few months, preparing my heart and mind for change. I'll take a step back to show you where this is coming from.

Last year I graduated with the class of 2006 from Covenant Christian High School. I had enrolled myself as a freshman at a Christian college in Illinois for the fall that year. My intentions were to remain there for my four years, earn my degree, and move on with life. However, I find now that God has entirely different plans for me. Throughout my first semester, I began realizing that this was not the place for me. I was not being challenged there and was not offered enough change of environment, having already been to a private Christian high school. The push however, was that God had seemingly been calling me to another life, another path.

In recent years, my eyes had been opened to the program YWAM (Youth With A Mission), a worldwide missions program for college-aged men and women. This caught my attention when my older brother Steven first attended the six-month program overseas in Australia. Ever since then, God has been tapping me on the shoulder, trying to get my attention. It’s almost as if he were saying, "Come take a look here. Check it out." He's not telling me A to Z about His plans for me there. He has simply called my attention to this program and has been doing so for many years now.

So I've decided to go. I came back after first semester and decided it was finally time to go for it. I'm living at home now saving money for the program I'll attend in the fall. It will be a six-month term overseas beginning in Australia, just as Steven did. I know without a doubt that great changes will take place and I will undergo transformation by the hands of God, so clearly I am eager to go, but yet I am content with where I am now. Even though I'd give everything to be there now, I know that this time here at home before I leave is still useful for something.

Just because I'm doing YWAM in the fall does not at all mean that I shouldn’t allow God to use me now. The journey I'll be embarking on for the next year will be an incredible year of growth and development for my spiritual character. I don't know what path I'll be on in ten years, or what I'll be doing with my life at that point. I do realize one thing though: God is showing me that though I'm uncertain of my future, He will still be there to guide me on this adventure wherever I may go, and so I will go. All in all, I know I am in a time of huge growth in my life and God is going to do some amazing things. During this time of growth, I know that I can venture out to any place He may call me with confidence and peace, because He will be with me every step of the way.