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Spending My Future, Michelle LeMond

Young people in the United States today have an array of choices of how to spend their future. This is a brief testimony of how I have chosen to spend mine.

While the question of what to do with my life has always been before me, it became of increasingly immediate concern as my college days at the University of Washington drew to an end. Growing up in a Christian home, I had always had a desire to have a life that was for the Lord, but as graduation approached I began to think of ways to enjoy myself afterwards, before “real life” began. Traveling abroad, and/or making more money presented themselves as appealing options. I figured after I had spent some time having fun I would give time to the Lord. During my senior year, I attended a Bible conference that covered the book of Revelation. In that conference, I received a deep impression of the Lord's intense desire to return, and of the need of the gospel of the kingdom to be preached in the whole inhabited earth (Matthew 24:14). For that to happen, the Lord needs people, particularly young people like me, and He needs them now, today, not at some future date, after trying out a career, having a family, or living our own lives, but today. That is why I am here at the Full-Time Training in Anaheim (FTTA).

Here at the FTTA, I strongly sense that the Lord is raising me up to send me out to preach the gospel of the kingdom to the four corners of the earth. I appreciate the Training because it is teaching me how to live a normal Christian life of spending time with the Lord every day, learning the truth in His Word, preaching the gospel (both through my living and my speaking), and developing a proper human living. This is the kind of Christian living that will bring the Lord back. I chose to spend two years of my life here that I could be made a vessel (c.f. 2 Corinthians 4:7) useful in my Master's hands that He could use me to bring Christ to every tribe, people, and tongue (2 Timothy 2:21). I want to be part of the generation that brings Him back. Nothing else I could choose to do, whether it is getting the highest education, striving for a successful career, or living the American dream, could ultimately satisfy me or have eternal value. My decision to come here is just the beginning of my choice to spend my future serving my Lord by living a life unto Him.

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