After 7 days of camp I’m back in my hometown, feeling all kinds of weirdness with the thought of leaving in just one month. Training camp was amazing, I was broken in quick and learned so much in just seven days. It is funny that I am already learning an appreciation for the little things like a good cup of coffee and the beauty of air conditioning. Not to mention a nice shower. I have always known that as Christians we should look different. Maybe we should smell different to.
On the first day I learned a lesson I hope to carry with me forever and that is my expectations vs. my reality. Expectation is something you have but don’t realize it until it is unmet. I think I may be slightly forgetful, and I forgot my rain fly. Which for all of the non-campers out there, it is a very key component of a tent. And wouldn’t you know it there was a crazy down pour and I had this expectation that I’d have a nice dry place to sleep, nope. A lot of my gear was wet, my tent had puddles all over, but I realized what a great group of people I was with. They stored my gear in their tents, helped to dry my tent, loaned me a rain fly, and let me crash in one of their dry tents.
I want to drop all expectations of smelling nice, sleeping well, fitting in, living in luxury, and worrying about myself first. Living a life in abandonment for Christ is what I want to do. This declaration is crazy but, if we were really honest with ourselves, it is what Christianity is all about. So I write it out be held accountable because there is going to be lots of times when I won’t want to think like this.
1 Corintians 10:31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.32 Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God—33 even as I try to please everyone in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.
This good looking bunch of people are my fellow J Squaders
