Laying motionless on the red dirt ground of Gainesville, Georgia, I did my best to be a good
unconscious plane-wrecked victim — for the small group activity that gauged our teamwork and communication through difficulties. Time and time again the urge to assist and come out of ‘unconsciousness’ to help, pulled from my very basic instincts. Literally putting my body in the hands of others and trusting them to keep me from actual brain injury, while allowing them to help me in my time of utter vulnerability, was harder for me than I allowed to show. I personally want to feel like a contributor and to have purpose, so this viewpoint was putting me out there in an unexpected way.
One big thing that came from this through listening and hearing the Lord more, was what He wanted me to learn through this. The body of Christ functions as a whole in every season of a believer’s life: in the spiritually downcast, unfruitful, in abundance, in all the times we encounter. When a believer struggles, the rest of the church (Christ’s body) are meant to come together in prayer and in the time of need for that believer. The body is refined in using its gifts, by simply being obedient to how we’ve been called to function individually and together.
Trust is hard.
Functioning well together is hard.
Wanting to serve a certain purpose when God has a different one for you, is hard.
Allowing yourself to be helped and know when you need the help from others, is hard.
And though the Cross is costly, His burden is light. I was never made to bear this world on my own strength.
I hear Him say, “‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.'” and He wants me to be able to sincerely say, “Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”(2Corinthians12:9-10)
Sometimes it’s ok to have red dirt in your hair.
