Sharing is something that I have never been very good with, just ask my sisters. Sometimes I really don’t want to share the sonic slush that I bought, or I don’t want to share my brand new dress that I haven’t yet worn. As much as I might occasionally struggle sharing, what I really struggle sharing is my life.
I am a fairly reserved person and it can take me a while to warm up to someone and it will take me an even longer time to share who I am with a new person. And sometimes I am embarrassed to say it takes me a long time to share who God is to me with other people.
Wait, hold up, I’m going on a nine month mission trip and I struggle sharing God with others?
Yes, but here’s the thing. God, and Jesus, and the Good News is so much more important and powerful than my insecurities.
I recently watched a video about Jesus dying for our sins (link at the end of the blogpost). I thought this video was a powerful reminder of the significance of Jesus dying on the cross for us and sometimes I need to be reminded of this powerful act.
Jesus died so we, imperfect humans can go to heaven, a place only for the perfect. Jesus died because he loved us so much that he was willing to endure a terrible death just so we can have eternal life in heaven. Recently, I have been looking at this in a new way and I am understanding how incredible it is that we have Jesus, that we can go to heaven. It is incredible that God loves us so much that he would give up his son, and that his son would be willing to go through torture so that we, imperfect humans, humans that cheat, humans that lie, humans that worship other idols can spend eternity in a perfect place.
This is something that I see is so powerful, something that brings me to my knees when I think about it. This is why I can get passed my own insecurities and inhibitions. I want everyone to know that they are loved, that they are forgiven. To know that there is a God that loves them so much that, that God would give up something as important as a son. To know that Jesus would go through torture because of his love for us.
This makes me want to remove my insecurities, remove my feelings of being scared that I won’t be liked, remove my fear that I will be persecuted for my beliefs
and share.
Words cannot describe how excited I am that I get the opportunity to share this with people all around the world. I know that it will not always be easy and there will be days when I would want anything different than from what I am experiencing, but it will be so worth it that I get to tell people about how much they are loved by Jesus.
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This link is a link to a blog by a world racer alumni who combines Christianity with backpacking. The specific video mentioned in this post is the second video on the page. This first video is also very good and I highly recommend watching both!
