After questions come answers right? Well…sometimes.
In my case, I was given more answers than I deserved. God could have simply said “Go to the land I will show you” and left it up to me to flounder around, but He didn’t.
When I awoke the night after the calling, I was mentally in possession of the following answers:
Who – ME
What – Leave Wilmington, all I know and love and return to Western New York (just in time for winter)
When – in 2 months time (November 2015)
Where – after NY, to Costa Rica
Why – to become a missionary!
Why NY – to live with my parents and get out of debt
Why Costa Rica – to use all of the gifts and experiences I’ve had that have led me to have a heart, broken for the men and women trapped in legalized prostitution.
Waking up with this knowledge was again, not a thought I had created but that God had created in my mind. By 2 pm that afternoon I had put in my 2 months notice at work. I texted my mother, called my father and told my best friend.
{He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. Mark 16:15}
It has been laid on my heart, that my specific calling is to the men and women in Costa Rica who are in prostitution, by whatever means, that they will know the love of Christ. I know what it is to live with guilt and shame, and I know what it is to be redeemed from it! My calling is to share the redemption that is found in a creator-savior who loves us regardless of our choices and mistakes!!
{ I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. John 10:28}