Being on the Race has taught me so much about being interruptible. It has taught me so much about life and time and the people that are in our life and what we do during our time with them.
I know people who are easily interruptible and I know people who need you to pencil in a time spent with them. And if I’m being honest, the people who are easily interruptible are the people I feel loved by the most.
What is our time worth, anyways, if we are spending it living busily and by your own schedule?
When I became a strong believer two and a half years ago, you could have stopped me in the middle of a grocery store on my way to work and I would have dropped everything to talk to you about how much Jesus meant to me. I was ready and willing to spread the gospel at whatever cost, and I thought all believers were that way.
I met a group of friends that same year, strong and amazing believers of Jesus, but I didn’t understand why they were so uninterruptible. It was so much so, that I had to schedule phone calls to talk to them. And I realized that most of Christian society is this way. We meet up for coffee for an hour or two, then we go about the rest of our day, crossing things off the list. When in reality the deeper we become in our relationship with Jesus, the more interruptible we should be with our time.
As I grew in deeper relationship with God, it became more about me and less about others. It became more about how I can have a marriage or a relationship based on God, how MY job could spread kingdom, how MY relationship with God could grow stronger, and I became very selfish and uninterruptible. I felt accomplished if I was able to disciple 2 or 3 people throughout the whole year. I felt accomplished trying to steward my 5 friendships.
There are about 8 billion people on this entire planet, and if I am only telling 7 people about Jesus for an entire year, I am robbing the thousands of people of the joy, peace, love, etc. that comes with knowing our Savior.
On this race, there are very few days where I am not telling someone about Jesus. I’ve been on the world race for about 95 days. And some of those days I’m telling 10/20/50 people about jesus just by preaching in a hospital or a prison or a church. And this is not to gloat. I am by no means better than anyone, but I CAN tell you that I am happy to be interrupted if that means that one more person knows the love and joy that we can receive in Christ.
Life is busy. Work gets busy. But life isn’t about crossing things off your To-Do list. Life is about the things you do in between your To-Do list. Because the spaghetti that you are gonna make for dinner at 5pm can wait 30 minutes if it means one more person can live this life on earth with hope and purpose.
Jesus will come back when every nation has heard his name. What are you doing with your time? How are you using your time to show what’s really important in life?
Be interruptible, because every good story starts with something unplanned and uncomfortable.
