“And all things, whatever you ask for in prayer, believing, you will receive.” Mathew 21:22
I sat in a tuk tuk (Cambodian taxi) wanting to pinch myself so that I would wake up. Was I in the matrix, was I in some fictional world. My life is so crazy! I was in San Diego three days prior, then Thailand and now I am in the streets of Cambodia.
Sometimes it is really hard to comprehend where the Lord has taken me in my life. I see how His sovereign hand has been upon me the entire journey and that he wants me to realize that this is reality for me.
I was just recently saying to a friend that sometimes I sit back and get overwhelmed with this life. I told her that sometimes I want the normal American lifestyle of a house with a picket fence, a dog running around the yard and a barbeque on the weekends. But then I ask myself, is that what God created me for?
I look out into the thousands of people on the streets of Cambodia, of which only two percent of 13 million people know Jesus and grieve. I then thought, would me wanting an easy life for myself be fulfilling what God wants for my life? I can honestly say that that is not what I was created for.
I know that I was created for the abnormal. I know that I was not created for what society tells us to live. I know that I was created for something so much different that will look in this world’s eye, as fanatical.
What I think about when I say that is the word Christian. Back when the disciples were first labeled as followers of Christ everyone thought that they were in a cult called the way. They were fanatics and were looked at from the world’s eyes, as being crazy. They were Christ fanatics.
I look at the life that I live and I say that I never want to stop looking like a fanatic for Christ. I never want to look normal in the world’s eyes because I know that my Father came into this world to share the good news of Salvation. I know that it is going to rub some people the wrong way, I know that I am not going to be liked from some because of it and I know that I will be persecuted for it.
What do I feel when I hear all of those things? I feel the heart of my Father in heaven loving every one of His children on this planet. I feel that He wants me to breathe love to the world so that His son Jesus Christ will be revealed and all will see that He is the living God.
I thank my Father for the life that I live, and I thank Him that I will never be the same.
God Bless to all.
