In the past five months:
I've had internet at every place I've lived.
I've had to look presentable with normal clothes and makeup.
I've been to more malls than in the past three years in the states.
So what's different about this journey?
Life on the World Race seems extravagant, and in many ways it is. We've been to crazy places and seen beautiful sites. We rode elephants, pet tigers, rode bamboo rafts, walked on the Great Wall of China, marveled at Angkor Wat at sunset, and seen countless sky masterpieces over different cities and nations.
We've fought the good fight through loving on kids in villages who have next to nothing, battled the lies built by sex trafficking, shared the gospel with university students, and preached sermons to a handful of congregations. Some days are crazy adventures, but some days are very ordinary.
Some days it is difficult to roll out of bed. Some days spending time alone with God is secondary to scrolling through my Facebook news feed. Some days I make it about getting through a day of ministry so that I can go home, eat dinner, and chill.
It comes down to the choice I have in each of these days, the choice to make the most of
that day.
I still have to choose to spend time in the word. I still have to choose to communicate my feelings and fears with those in my community. I still have to choose to Trust in God's plan for my life. I still have to choose to go face to face with wounds that were created in my past. I still have to choose to love.
Don't think that an adventure with God is only for the people who leave the country in Jesus' name. You have the choice to do the same right where you are.
It isn't about the places we are, the language we're speaking, or the people who surround us. It is that our God is the same loving Father here in this home church in Lezhe, Albania as He is in Walmart just a quick five minute drive from my home in Wichita Falls. He is good here and there. He is walking with me as I'm spending my first year out of school traveling the world, and he's walking with my friends who are spending their first year out of school being married.
It isn't about your circumstances. It is about the choices you are making in those circumstances.
Choose to love.
Choose to believe that God is pursuing you.
Choose to make adventure your ordinary.
Choose to take an adventure with God today.
He's ready. Are you?
