I’m not going to lie, when I wrote the first part of this blog (If you haven’t read it yet … this probably won’t make as much sense until you do, so go ahead … read it!) I knew that it needed to be a two part blog, but getting the words for the first part was so much easier. I don’t know, maybe because knowing the problem and deciding to take action aren’t the hard part. What’s hard is actually taking the action. But how do I take action for something when it is still a little over 8 months away?
My American Dream is so easy to give up in theory, but what’s the reality? The reality is that I want to be at a different place in my life. I do. Had I been married by now, would my heart be breaking for the babies without a chance? Would I even know about them or would I be living in an ignorant bliss? My life verse has been Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you, not to harm you. Plans to give you a hope and a future.” How easy is it to know that verse in my mind, but forget it in my heart? I know that my life has turned out this way for a reason, I know that my plans have fallen through so His plans can come to pass in my life.
It’s a scary thought stepping out on faith, how much easier would it be for me to stay? Quite. But I would hate to miss out on all that God has in store for my life, by settling for staying. I am called to push beyond my comfort zone, to proclaim to the Nations that Jesus is alive, and he is the Lover of their soul.
Too many people are striving to achieve this happiness in a materialistic world, believing that prosperity is found in what we have and not in who we have. I have Jesus and my life is not the same because of it. I am a missionary. You are a missionary. My mission field is now international. Your mission field may be your neighborhood. We proclaim the same Gospel and the same Good News, that Jesus has died and rose again so we can live with Him forever in Heaven one day. But we didn’t die when we got saved, we were left here to complete our salvation, working until the day we are called home to bring countless others into His kingdom.
This morning at my church back home the Pastor asked a question along these lines:
“How many people are dying and going to hell because you’re not being a disciple?”
In David Platt’s book, Radical, he says something along the lines of,
“The cost of discipleship is great but is the cost of non-discipleship even greater?”
Lord, create in me a burning passion to never settle, to never fear my calling, to push past the white picket fence that contains the familiar and become a disciple to those who may have never heard the name of Jesus Christ, to become a part of this great journey that God has called each of his children. I ask that you please partner with me through your prayers, and if possible, through your financial support. Just click on the “Support Me” tab underneath my picture on the left to find out more. Thank You.
