It’s making a choice to let interruptions be the things that drive your day rather than frustrate them. It’s letting conversations be had when your plan is to do other things. It’s positioning yourself to be a vessel that God can use versus just living the life you have for the purposes you plan for. It’s having a conversation with that homeless family on the street, telling your tuk-tuk driver about Jesus, using the necessities of life to introduce people to the one who rescued you.
I get it: I am a Type-A, have a plan type of person. I have the kind of life that I would plan every minute of every day, if I could. I keep busy and I have too much going on at home to ever find the end of my extensive to-do list. But I had to make a change.
I came on the race and made a decision early on that I would choose to be interruptible. That instead of working my life around wanting to see everything in a month, experiencing “everything” a culture had to offer, I would breathe because I choose to live with space in my life. I choose to live a life that is driven by relationship rather than experiences. I choose to see the people around me for who God sees them to be: loved, relational human beings. I would stop and look around me because ministry is all around me. When I choose to buy into the culture around me, I choose to be a part of the story God is writing in the lives of the people around me.
That homeless family isn’t a bother.
That tuk-tuk driver might not hear the gospel for years.
That shop owner might just need someone to listen.
That taxi driver might be struggling through his marriage.
That teammate might just need someone to listen.
That squad leader might need a place where they can just rest.
And I am going to choose to align myself to be used in such a way that God can use me in that way. I will open my life up to the chances that are put in front of me; I will be “inconvenienced” because people matter to Him. And if people matter to Him, people should matter to me.
