I remember back last October we were living in Cartagena, Colombia and loving life on the race. One night a few of us were walking around Old Town Cartagena and came upon an event that was about to start, there were a lot of chairs all facing a rather large stage with a runway down the center of it, it was obviously a fashion show. We stood there for a minute admiring the scene forming around us when my good friend Shelby turned to my other good friend Molly and dared her to sneak to the back, walk up the stage, strut her stuff down the runway, strike a pose at the end and walk off. It was risky, nerve wracking and she could have gotten in trouble, but of course Molly did it.
I bet sometime in your life you’ve dared to do something new; you took a new job, moved to a new city, started hanging out with a new group of friends or maybe even went on a short term mission trip. We’ve all been there, out of our comfort zone and knee deep into the great unknown, sometimes thinking that we’ll never make it all to see that God had been holding us the entire time and we just didn’t realize it.
But what if we started daring ourselves to really take risks? Bigger risks?
What if we were to put our friendships on the line for the Gospel? Our families, our careers, or even our finances on the line for the Gospel?
What would happen if we put everything we had, everything we owned, every relationship, every penny and even our dignity on that line?
Would it be worth it?
I say absolutely.
Romans 8:18 says ‘Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later.’
Everything that we experience in this life will be so masked by the glory of God we will see someday that we won’t even be able to remember it. So why not do everything for Him? Why not put everything on the line for the Gospel? It might be scariest thing you’ve ever done, but it will be totally worth it.
The World Race was one of the scariest things I’ve ever done; leaving home, the comforts of friends, family, and clean bathrooms were among the things I missed the most but in the end I would have done it all over again because of the growth I experienced and intimacy I have with Christ now.
This is why I’ve decided to go to the Center for Global Action starting in September. God told me to go so I’m going to go. It’s really scary because all of my finances are on the line for this, but I know He will take care of me some how and I know it will all be worth it.
If you’d like to support me financially you can click on the ‘support me’ link on the left hand side!
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