What does safety mean to you? “Have safe travels!” and “Stay safe” are common expressions in today’s era. These phrases have the connotation that we are in control of our own safety. Yes, there are certain ways we can mitigate risk and danger, but even if we hide and take cover does that really mean that we are safe?
Two years ago, I was in a car that was driving back from Chicago Bulls Game that slipped on a patch of ice leaving the freeway exit, and within a matter of seconds I realized that the driver had absolutely no control over the car and the direction it was heading. My car was going 60 miles an hour, there was a van in the land next to us and a steep drop off on the right, yet the direction we were headed was out of our hands. God willing we landed in a huge snow bank with a totaled car, shattered windshield, and we were completely unharmed.
For the year after I had a huge anxiety driving on the interstate, because I feared things that were out of my control. I had no ability to control the other drivers on the freeway and was so nervous to see what would have happened. Our safety cannot rely on this broken world we live in, because if we live a world of “safety”, eventually this world is going to disappoint us every time. Loved ones near and dear to our heart are going to die someday and we are going to have painful memories of times within this life we live in. Safety can only come from one source and that is the hope and rest the Lord has given to us.
A lot of people have asked me about safety when I am living abroad next year with the World Race. I am not going to sugar coat it; I will be camping and working with ministries that are going through a lot of political and economic distress, so yes danger exists where I will be, but my peace and safety in my heart comes from the Lord. It does not come from this world’s brokenness, but instead it comes God making us children of the light, if we just merely believe in Him and trust Him with all of our hearts, all of our souls, and all of our minds. If we have God’s light to shine, than why would we hide in darkness? I want to shine the light of God to areas of the world whether it is to women undergoing human trafficking, parentless children, and the dying. My safety relies on the Lord who died on the cross to release us from the brokenness of this world. My safety is not reliant on the fluctuating Earthly means, but it is the constant hope and promises that is to come.
So I ask you, where do you seek your safety?
While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you brothers and sisters are not in darkness so that this should surprise you like a thief. So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake… But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. (1 Thessalonians 5:3-8)
Help support me by:
- Praying for the hearts of the lost, broken, and hurting people who we will come in contact with around the world
- Helping financially through a one time donation or monthly donation for the cost to support me on this mission by going to www.colleenwidmaier.theworldrace.org and pushing the orange support me button
- Buying a clothing merchandise at booster.com/world-race either for Christmas presents or just for a fun present for yourself-this booster closes 12/3/15
