God has been teaching me many things down here in missions training at CGA here in Georgia. Yesterday I was in my Long-Term Missions Track of six amazing people and I asked them for prayer. Right now, I am also in the story track and I am writing a book which is the biggest challenge I have ever encountered so far in my almost 30 years of life. (16 days away)
I asked my team to pray for strength for me to accomplish the book and for the Lord to give me strength. After my track prayed for me for strength to finish the book Ryan asked me to come out and play ultimate frisbee. At first, I didn’t want to because of the book I am working on right now, but I wanted to go play so being the extravert I am, I decided to go and play ultimate frisbee.
We were playing four on four ultimate frisbee and having a great time with my friends. Then two people had to leave to go to something else for the evening. One person came to play frisbee with us, but we were down to seven people. At this point we were trying to even out the teams.
Someone had to go and play all-time offense to even out the teams. One person was on both teams which was me. So we played frisbee with seven people and I ran to run so much on the field!
I was playing on two sides! Many of us play two sides when we try to live for God. As Christians, some of us will raise our hands in worship and put on a show for God. We show our praise to God in public to show our allegience to God. We try to be the perfect Christian in front of people, but then we don’t spend time with God on a personal basis to get to know him personally.
How are we going to hear from God if we only worship God on a corporate basis?
How are we going to be for Christ if we give more attention to social media and what other people think about us instead of Christ?
We can’t play two sides! We have to be 100 percent for Christ!
When I was playing on both teams yesterday one of the people said, Blake I can’t trust you fully in the game because you’re for both teams.”
At one point, I was going for the frisbee and ran into three people and almost knocked my glasses off of me.
We get our glasses knocked off when we have one eye looking at God and one eye looking at the world for approval. We have to be one team and have both eyes focused on Christ at all times.
Without this our vision is blinded and our identity is blinded because we lost focus.
I may have been the star in frisbee yesterday being on two-sides, but when we play for God’s team and for the world we get nowhere in our walk for Christ.
