[once again- apoligies for the lack of pictures!]
Have you ever thought what it would be like to completely live outside of your comfort zone? To look at the box that the world places us in over and over again and chose not to get in?
I’m in Peru right now and my comfort zone is getting rocked on a daily basis. I’m never completely clean, no surface around me is ever completely clean, my clothes smell a little funny even though I’ve been hand washing them. I wash my nalgene on a daily basis because it gets so dirty every single day. I am expected to eat as much rice at each meal as I would eat in a week. Also: cow stomach.
I spent all of the first week I was here hauling dirt in wheelbarrows and busting up bricks with a pick ax.
I’m living with 60 other people.
These are not things I do on a regular basis.
But Jesus?
He is so much in and around this place and this time it’s crazy.
I spend my days working for different organizations doing anything and everything. I shower in an outdoor shower each afternoon, I have team time helping my team become more like Jesus as they help me do the same. At night we have squad time getting to know each other and be around each other.
We celebrate our victories together and we cry together.
So much good stuff.
And I’ve realized that it kind of reminds me of Zacchaeus in the Bible.
Zacchaeus had to get up in the tree to see Jesus.
He literally had to get out of his comfort zone of staying unseen in order to see Jesus.
I have lived in the shade of the tree for a long time.
And I’ve realized this month as I am hauling dirt in a wheel barrow stepping over trash and bricks that God has taken me out of my comfort zone in order to see Him more clearly.
And I have. I have begun to see who I am in Christ. Who I actually am in Christ. Not the lies that have held me down for so long.
So even when I am covered in an inch of mud and brick dust I am a worthy daughter of God.
I am really excited to see it this tree all year in order to see Jesus. I know I am going to get dirty, be scared I might fall or look ridiculous, but I am going to stay here. Because all I want to do is see His face.
I want to encourage you to look up at the tree you are standing under and climb up into it. Jesus wants you to be able to see Him, but sometimes we have to do a little bit of work to make sure we can see Him clearly.
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