For me, every new adventure starts as soon as the last one is finished. Sometimes the next one even starts in the middle of the current one. Not necessarily the real adventure, but the thinking, writing, and the dreaming; its always in progress. For the first time in my life, I am living out a day to day adventure. Going to ministry, traveling the world, and discovering that people who I just met can turn into my dear brothers and sisters. I guess you could say I am at my “mountain top” moment.
The funny thing about getting to the top of a mountain is that you suddenly gain the perspective of seeing how many other mountains there are. For a moment, its a humbling and beautiful thing. But then quickly can come a temptation to look around at all the other mountains and believe the mountain that I’ve just climbed doesn’t matter. You know what I did when I got to the top? I got distracted by other taller mountains.
Sometimes when we go on adventures we compare, I know I have compared plenty of times on this trip, but those become distractions. And after a while I got pretty tired of trying to come up with an impressive plan on how to make my journey better, than what I or anyone else might have thought. I decided that I was just going to have fun on the adventure with Papa. That was my plan, and still is and miraculously, all the garbage of me trying started to wear off and I fell back in love with my day to day adventure, with no strings attached.
It is so freeing, because the love that I felt for the Lord, for the adventure he is placing me on feels honest and not forced any more. I believe that God wants to do this work in all of us. He is waiting for us to hand in our self-made, plastic trophies so He can give us real gold. And we need to trust him for it. Be yourself and don’t take your mountain for granted, don’t take your adventure for granted. Because each mountain that we conquer, each journey that we travel down the Lord is working through it. He is growing you, shaping you, and making you into the man or women he always has intended you to be.
He wants you to fall in love with the creation around you and fall in love with the steps that you take that draw you closer to him. But, most importantly he wants you to fall in love with how he has created you to be. He wants you to fall in love with Him. To go and be in an adventure with him every single day to let go of the fear of the unknown and replace it with curiosity. “It is true that God may have called you to be exactly where you are. But it is absolutely vital to grasp that he didn’t call you there so you can settle in and live in comfort and superficial peace” (Francis Chan).
So what are you waiting for? Go and fall in love all over again with who you are, with Jesus, and with the grand adventure He has before you!
