September last year while I was in North Carolina I was trying to decide whether I should go spend a year doing missions with YWAM or do the World Race. I felt like God wanted me to do the World Race but I wanted to do YWAM. The YWAM base that I applied for spent six months in Greece and six months in a country in the Middle East. I wanted to do it so bad. For those who don’t know, I’ve felt like the Lord has called me to serve refugees in the Middle East long term. And one of the reasons I didn’t want to do the World Race is that they didn’t plan on going to the Middle East this year. But the Lord made it abundantly clear He wanted me to go on the World Race so I chose that. 

Then a day or two afterward I was still grieving the fact that I wasn’t going to the Middle East next year. As I was spending time with God, He told me that I would get to the Middle East. He didn’t say when or what country specifically but He said I would. I believed Him because He is faithful.

Fast forward to the end of our time in Kosovo and we were told that after Ukraine that we were tentatively set to go to Jordan afterward. It wasn’t originally set for our route but thanks to covid it was a country that we could get into. Pretty much everyone was excited to go, myself included. But I didn’t want to get too excited in case covid changed something.

Then we got off the plane in Jordan on Thursday at about 1 a.m. As we were in line to go through customs it hit me. I’m in the Middle East. God kept his promise to me that I would get here someday and it was so much sooner than I expected. I wanted to cry tears of joy when that hit me but I didn’t because I was about to go through customs and I didn’t want to be crying there.

Then we got to the place we were staying at about 2:30 a.m. and I looked out our balcony and cried a little. Amman, the capital of Jordan, is beautiful. In my head, the song “Great is Thy Faithfulness” started playing.

Since then I’ve fallen in love with this place. The people are amazing, so nice and hospitable. I really want everyone I meet to just know and love Jesus. I’m sure that this month is going to be a hard month in a lot of ways but I think it will also be a very amazing time that I’ll get to have here. 

“Your faithfulness continues through all generations; you established the earth, and it endures.” Psalm 119:90