It's Yours; All Yours

Written by Carson - Working in the Middle East

During my time in the Middle East, God revealed a lot of things to me. The months that I was there volunteering at the library were so good, but also busy. So the only time that I was able to get work done was when I retreated into one of the rooms in the library (usually late in the night after the day’s activities) and shut the door. I found myself more than once turning on worship music as I worked. 

One night in particular, I was working late and the song ‘The Lord’s Prayer’ came on. I paused my work, feeling a tug on my heart from God. He wanted me to hear something, so I closed my eyes. “Cause it’s Yours, it’s Yours. All Yours, all Yours. The Kingdom, the power, the glory are yours.” I knew immediately what He was trying to convey to me. My spirit had been growing weary because of all the friends I had made in the Middle East, who didn’t know God. 

In a country like the one that I was serving in, it is illegal to evangelize, so people have to get creative about how they can tell others about God. Organizations like this create a safe space for people to come. It is a library, and that is what gets people in the doors. But it is so much more than that. I got to know the mom who comes in with five wild and fun children. The teen who felt so much pressure from the culture they grow up in to live a certain way. The women who are fighting for a voice in their world. The refugees who had to run from their home and make a new one here. The Christians who are too scared for their safety to come out to their families, who can feel safe in the library. 

In the moment that God spoke to me through that worship song, He was telling me to not worry for my new friends. Everything is His, and I have done my work there for now. I have to trust God with the seeds that have been planted by the work we have done. The rest is all His.