Over and over again God has slowly been stripping me of the baggage I once thought mattered. I still remember back in November when I sold my dinning room table and my flesh was screaming. “You are crazy, why would you sell everything?” I was actually crying on my couch that night, telling God that He should choose someone else to go on the Race.
Now here I am three month away from launching on Gods World Race journey and I cannot wait to get out of this comfort. I am so exhausted with wordly distractions like facebook, cozy couches and Starbucks lattes.
There is a part of me that is desperate to experience God in all of His Glory. There is a longing inside of me that wants to be wrecked and tired, so the only choice I have is to pray to my Father for strength. I wanna look and feel so greasy that Jesus’s sparkle shines even brighter through me. I wanna experience true hunger so I can relate to the child that lives of barely anything each day, just so I can rely on the true Bread of Life, my Savior. I don’t wanna miss a second of the world that God so beautifully created, wasting it with things that don’t have an ounce of meaning. I want full surrender, all of my inner being connected to the only source that will ever make me shine bright like a diamond.
The comfort and coziness, the distractions we live in day in and day out keep us distance from God. What we look at as blessings can sometimes be satans tool to keep us busy and occupied so we don’t hear or see Jesus.
Jesus won’t be found on HBO shows and TV dinners. You probably won’t find Him in the new dress you bought or the cute shoes you just spend your paycheck on. What you think is happiness can quickly turn into no more time for Jesus. Its crazy how many excuses we can make not to spend time with God.
Our human heart has the tendency to make an idol out of everything other than God. The heart that He so beautifully created now only cares about the next fix to stay occupied. Someone once told me that the Harvest in Haiti is ripe! Haitian children are ripe to soak in the Word of God. They are desperate to hear the Gospel and hungry for Jesus. Why?! Cause that is sometimes all they got. They don’t have iPhones, twitter, snapchat and malls. They have Jesus and that is all they will ever need! They have Gods Word and it sustains them.
What sustains you? I hope and pray its Jesus over everything!
Love Jen
