I never knew writing out my thoughts and sharing them could be so fun so I thought I would get a little vulnerable with this post. Ready….OK! (I’m a loser, I know.)
To start off, I was inspired to write this post by a friend who told me he would see me AFTER I was a “world traveler”. The moment I read that text I couldn’t help but get a little irritated. Not at him in the slightest, but at the fact that I have also been planning way too far in advance. It made me realize that we are way too quick to plan out our futures instead of living in the present. Why is that? Why do we plan so far in advance when we aren’t promised tomorrow?
I titled this “In Between” because I recently have been jumping back and forth between whether or not I should be living day by day or living like I’m leaving in 6 months. It’s almost like everyone I know has assumed I’m putting my current life on hold because I’m about to travel for 11 months.
Question – Is 11 months really that long? In the grand scheme of things?
I know a lot can happen in that span of time, but that is no reason to stop living where I am at the moment! We don’t know when it will be our time to go and I have learned that lesson the hard way. I would rather live day by day because I don’t want my last day to be me planning out the future. I also don’t want to find myself assuming different seasons of my life are more important than others. Jesus said “therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of it’s own” Matthew 6:34.
Anyway, this all made me start thinking about how there is always a time to play it smart, to play it safe, and then to play it like you have nothing to lose.Lately, I have felt like you see and feel God the most when you play it like you’ve got nothing to lose. Every time I play it smart by planning out my every move, I take a step back and realize that I am kind of questioning God’s power and plan.I am too quick to try to make my own plans and make them a nonnegotiable, but that isn’t how God works, people.
He has ONE plan for your life and that is His! He already knows the mistakes I am going to make. In fact, He knows the mistakes we are all going to make. I am so big on proclaiming that I trust in His plan, but then I find myself living my life like I don’t trust it by playing it safe ALL the time.
HONESTLY, where is the fun and thrill of playing it safe? I don’t know about you, but some of the best lessons I have learned in life are those that I learned from not playing it safe at all. God has molded me into the exact person he wants me to be and I couldn’t be more thankful. God can do so much more when you surrender every day to him rather than telling him what your schedule is or how you want your plans to align.
You don’t want to make so many rules on yourself that you’re missing out on God’s incredible plan.
I am not sure if I am making that much sense. However, I challenge whoever took the time to read this to stop walking around worried of messing up, getting rejected, looking like the outsider, or speaking up when the world tells you not to. If you truly believe in Gods Power, He has your back and already knows what you’re going to do. He is with you always. Never leaving. As long as whatever you’re doing doesn’t pull you away from His word and glorifying Him, I say go for it. Be brave! You could be missing out on a really cool lesson and a time where God wants to grow and stretch you more than He ever has.
I want to be the person that can look at other people and tell them to never live in the lie that God’s power isn’t strong enough. His power is all we need and all we should rely on. It is the only thing that we have – it’s a weapon not of this world.
Going on this race is a pure example of not playing it safe, but there are things right now that I am definitely playing safe and I need to figure out where to draw the line or if I should even draw one. The only thing I want to do is glorify God in this small life that he has given me, but I also want to be open to anything He needs me to be open to.
Let’s quit playing it safe and give it all to God. Seriously, live each day like it’s your last. Yes, I just said that. I’m a girl of many words!
Here’s to living like His power is real and His plan is always better.
Xx, Mace
