Some friends and I spent the week up in New Hampshire with an amazing group of youth and staff from Boston Onnuri Church. We watched in awe as God moved in their hearts and they declared their intention to live for Him. You could almost see the words being written on blank pages, as new chapters of their stories with Him began …
And somehow, it brought me back to that wondrous, beautiful, momentous day, exactly 8 years ago when it all began for me. When a little 17-year-old girl, sitting in a room with 10,000 in Kansas City, encountered the uncreated God. How He spoke to my heart those three life-changing words, “I love you,” and how my life was set for a course that I could not have imagined. There have been mountains so high and glorious, I have said like Peter at the mount of transfiguration, “Let us stay here, forever!” never wanting to come down. There have been lows that were so low, I did not think I would ever make it out. And to be honest, I am nowhere near the woman I thought I would be 8 years into the story. But He is so much more kind, faithful, passionate, glorious, benevolent, beautiful, and a million other adjectives, than I could have, or ever will completely know.
And as I remembered the journey and it’s start, my heart nearly exploded out of my chest. There is no doubt about it; I would do it all over again. I wouldn’t take any of it back. Not for all the riches, all the success, all the pleasures, all the comforts, all the power or position I could have …The revelation and experience of His love, His GREAT love for me, has been worth it all.
Once upon a time, God whispered His affections to an unremarkable little pauper girl. He told her she was a queen and invited her to go on an adventure with Him … and she was never the same.
