Okinawa, Japan: May 10, 2012
Genesis 18:24, NLT “Is there anything too hard for the Lord?”
Last night my friends – my Okinawa family – gave me a re-birth party. They had a birthday cake that said “Happy Re-birthday!” I got teary eyed thinking about how I was due to leave them soon and how I would desperately miss their sisterhood, companionship, love and fellowship. What really choked me up was that they actually noticed the positive change in me. When I first arrived in Okinawa, I had no personal relationship with God. Little did I know that God had big plans to get me to Himself and show me who He really is. And today, I’m humbled that someone noticed what God has done in my life.
Have you ever been all alone with God?
Well, if you have you know that once He really gets a hold of you, you cannot remain the same. As a result of my time with God for three years in Okinawa, I developed a deep desire for others to see God in me. Not because it’s deep, but because my life without Him is nothing. I know what my life looks like without Him. I wanted to experience the transformation that was available to believers and those who have yet to believe.I didn’t know that prayer had been answered.
Last night I realized that nothing is too hard for God. I’m yet growing and changing to become the woman He wants me to be and man…there are times I fall so short. But I am not the same young woman who joined the Navy. I’m not the same young woman who arrived in Okinawa. I believe now – I know – that nothing is too hard for God.
I am resurrected, alive and reborn. It reminds me of the scripture that warns us not to put new wine in old wineskins. I had to die as many times as it took for rebirth. I don’t quite yet know how to be the woman God revealed to me that I’d be. But I’ve changed enough to keep trying until I’m completely committed and submitted to God. I can’t go back because I’m just not the same. God is real and deserving of my praise.
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