I spent my spring break in Washington DC with a friend from high school and my Aunt and Uncle. Most college students go to the beach and get tan with their friends but I have never been to DC so I went there instead.
When people travel they normally travel to places they have never been before because they want to make new memories and see things they don’t normally see in their front yard. Part of this is not knowing where you are going or how to get there. Everything is different and new to you. It makes me uncomfortable knowing that I can get lost so easily in a big city like Washington DC.
One of the things I got to do was attend a really big church. Back in Pittsburgh I go to a small church and even in Huntington I attend a smaller church. This was a mega church! It made me uncomfortable to be around so many people that I didn’t know. I also talked to several people and told them about the world race and explained to them how I got involved with it. That was uncomfortable for me.
If you haven’t realized already my theme for this blog and for the world race is being uncomfortable. A recurring topic in my life has been stepping out of my personal bubble and being uncomfortable. And I have seen too many people/Christians be so comfortable that they keep God to themself.
As a Christian it can be easy to go to church every Sunday morning and leave God in the pew. Why do we do this? That isn’t what we are called to do. In South Africa I went door to door telling people about Jesus and that made me very uncomfortable and I’m sure it made the people I was talking to uncomfortable.
We have to be UNCOMFORTABLE! Step out of our bubble and do something we are not use to doing. If we stay in our bubbles and never tell people about God are we really doing what God asks us to be?
Be uncomfortable and help that old lady walk across the street, pray for a meal, sing at the top of your lungs while everyone else is whispering, that person you seeing crying, pray with them, or tell your friends about what you learned in church that morning. These things seem so easy but we don’t do them because we are scared of being judged or ridiculed. God has your back in every one of these situations. The first word is always the hardest, but once it is out of the way it is so easy. Be uncomfortable in your faith because we should not be comfortable.
While on the race I will being doing things I have never done before. A lot of these things will make me very uncomfortable. I am going to trust God to give me exactly what I need to change the lives of these people all over the world, but also to work through my uncomfortableness in my personal life.
