Since being accepted, I have started asking God every day what I could do to step outside of my comfort zone and I just kept hearing the word rest. So that’s exactly what I did.
A couple of days after Christmas I went to a conference with my youth group from church. One night a small group of us went to this small restaurant and we weren’t exactly sure what kind of food they served. We quickly found out they served vegan food. The group was excited about trying the food, I on the other hand, not so much.
As I looked at the menu, not everything sounded so bad but I also wasn’t exactly sure what everything was. I saw that they served tacos, which I thought about getting but I knew I should trying something else. So I did. Our food came and it took me a few minutes before I made myself take a bite. The first few bites weren’t so bad but the rest just didn’t have any taste to it.
Later that night as I was laying in bed, I just kept thinking how I wished I had something else to eat. God then said to me “You asked me to help you step out of your comfort zone. You said yes to trying something new even if you didn’t like it. It’s small steps like that, that are going to help you step outside of your comfort zone.”
The next day, during worship at the evening session there was man sitting next to me praying. I could here his voice louder than I could hear the worship. So I asked God if there was something He wanted me to tell the man and God quickly said yes and gave me a message for him. Fear quickly started to set in and I didn’t want to say anything to this man that I didn’t know. Then I started thinking how I hadn’t done something like that in a long time and I was probably just making everything up.
I decided to tell the guy anyway. I pushed through my fear and decided to just trust God. A couple of minutes after I had talked to him, the man told me to keep prophesying and to not be fearful. God said to me a few minutes later, “See what happens when you completely trust me?”
I wasn’t exactly sure what I had gotten myself into during those couple of days but I said yes. That’s all He wanted me to do, was just say yes and to completely trust Him. After all, what’s the worst that could happen?
