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AS GOLD

JOB 23.10 // MAYCE FISCHER

What do you mean,

"As Gold"?

About Me

The Specifics:

What & Why

AS GOLD

As Gold

"But He knows the way I take;

when He has tried me, I shall come out as gold."

Job 23:10

This is a documentation of a process.

I believe God invites each of us, individually, into the adventure of knowing Him. I believe that life with Him can look like a million different things, and I believe that no matter what it looks like, He is intentional with us... That He has carefully purposed each chapter of our lives to give us room to grow in friendship with Him.

I also believe that we're sanctified along the way; refined "as gold," slowly and gently but assuredly rid of the things that prevent us from fully receiving and fully giving the incredible love that He has always been extending to us.

I have created this site because I want to be fully engaged in the process He's taking me through, to take the time to really chew through the things He's showing me. And I want to faithfully steward what I learn by sharing, in hopes that it serves as an encouragement to you as you walk through your own process with Him!

ABOUT ME

About Me

My name is pronounced "may-see" and I'm a Texas-raised, 23-year-old external processor. I'm just saying "yes" to God and writing about what happens.

THE SHORT VERSION

I was raised in a Christian home, but my relationship with God didn't really gain traction until university. I felt like the Lord was asking me to trust Him enough to let go of the people and plans I had allowed to become my security, and I had to really consider whether or not I thought God was real...because if He was everything that He claimed to be in the bible (all-knowing and all-powerful, "the most good" and loving beyond comprehension, to name a few,) it would be really silly not to trust Him!

I can't even explain to you the fulfillment I experienced when I gave Him my "yes." I can personally testify - He really is the most trustworthy person in the universe!

And since that "yes" (and all the ones that followed,) life has transformed into the sweetest adventure. It hasn't always looked exciting or pleasant, and never has it looked perfect... But in every season of my life, in every chapter and new setting, I have the reassurance that the God of the Universe, who has called me His child, has promised to never leave me, to work all things for my good, to let me see His goodness in the land of the living, and to place my hope in an eternity spent in fellowship with Him. (If you don't know God as a friend, that might sound overwhelming instead of exciting...but I challenge you to start to get to know Him for yourself, and see if your viewpoint doesn't change!)

WHERE IT'S GOTTEN ME

Following God has currently led me to Australia, where I am a volunteer full-time staff and student of the organization Youth With A Mission, Brisbane. The purpose of this organization is "To know God, and to make God known" - which looks like a lot of different things! But primarily it looks like helping young people know the incredible love of God for themselves, and then equipping them to share that same transformative love, no matter where they go on to live or what they go on to do.

THE WHAT

THE WHY

The What and Why

My present adventure with God involves living in Australia to volunteer with an organization called Youth With A Mission, Brisbane.

I am a student of the Basic Leadership School, which means that I am also staff member of the Discipleship Training Schools that run several times each year.

Youth With A Mission's purpose is "To know God, and to make God known." You can learn more about Youth With A Mission, Brisbane, by clicking here. You can learn more about the specific school that I staff, Pathfinders, by clicking here.

WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE?

Being a leadership student and a member of the Pathfinders DTS staff team is a full-time, widely-varied job. As staff, we walk alongside the students (literally and figuratively - our school has a backpacking focus!) throughout the class time, roadtrips, local outreach, and overseas mission trip that make up the six month course. We get to process with them, pray with them, and grow with them...in addition to making sure all the logistical needs involved in running a school are met!

For me specifically, staffing a DTS involves coordinating and leading worship, handling our school's marketing and communication, and overseeing our guest speaker hospitality.

It also looks like getting to watch God encounter people and transform lives, up close and personal. It is such a privilege and adventure - it's not always easy, but I know that God knew exactly what He was doing when He called me to return after my own DTS, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.

The short version of all of this is that I believe that God is real, near, and kind.

I believe He is the craving of the human soul, the peace to end wars, the healing to conquer sickness; I believe that knowing Him as He longs to be known can, and does, change the world.

I believe that He is love, like He says He is (1 John 4:8). Take a moment and imagine the implications of that - of someone actually embodying love in its truest, purest form.

I believe that God plainly displayed His heart for us through His son Jesus - Jesus, who was unafraid to reach out and touch the lepers that He healed. Jesus, who welcomed in the little children when the adults wanted to shoo them off as a hindrance or a bother. Jesus, passionate enough to flip over tables in the temple, enraged that people were being kept at arm's length from God by a group of religious leaders who prioritized obedience over sincerity of heart.

He is a beautiful, dynamic, loving God, and His motive is to love you, to be known by you; and (to this I can personally attest,) we are transformed by the knowing.

I say "yes" to God, foremost because I love Him. I have felt His comfort coursing through my bones in my darkest moments; I have felt His delight lifting me up and untangling me from my messes. I have seen Him intervene, I have felt Him make things new. I have taken Him up on His promises, and I have watched Him prove Himself faithful - every time. I say "yes" to Him because we have shared laughter and tears and questions and exclamations, and I trust Him. I trust His heart. And I say "yes" to Him because I genuinely believe, with the most raw parts of me, that He IS the solution, the answer, the antidote, the miracle, that can mend and make whole again a desperately hurting world.

AS GOLD

JOB 23.10 // MAYCE FISCHER

What do you mean,

"As Gold"?

About Me

The Specifics:

What & Why

AS GOLD

"But He knows the way I take;

when He has tried me, I shall come out as gold."

Job 23:10

ABOUT ME

THE WHAT

THE WHY

My present adventure with God involves living in Australia to volunteer with an organization called Youth With A Mission, Brisbane.

​

I am a student of the Basic Leadership School, which means that I am also staff member of the Discipleship Training Schools that run several times each year.

​

Youth With A Mission's purpose is "To know God, and to make God known." You can learn more about Youth With A Mission, Brisbane, by clicking here. You can learn more about the specific school that I staff, Pathfinders, by clicking here.

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For me specifically, staffing a DTS involves coordinating and leading worship, handling our school's marketing and communication, and overseeing our guest speaker hospitality.

​

The short version of all of this is that I believe that God is real, near, and kind.

​

I believe He is the craving of the human soul, the peace to end wars, the healing to conquer sickness; I believe that knowing Him as He longs to be known can, and does, change the world.

I believe that He is love, like He says He is (1 John 4:8). Take a moment and imagine the implications of that - of someone actually embodying love in its truest, purest form.

​

​

He is a beautiful, dynamic, loving God, and His motive is to love you, to be known by you; and (to this I can personally attest,) we are transformed by the knowing.

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