Good friends sent me a card for graduation and it read,
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.�
How TRUE IS THAT? God is calling me on the race because LA
is comfortable, even San Diego is becoming comfortable. Most of the time I don’t need Him here. I am
self-sufficient, and that’s the reality of the spiritual climate in
America. We rely on our credit cards, our morning espresso, our
friends, our cars, our stores. We watch people everyday get by without
putting their trust in God.
But I don’t want to live in that
reality. I’m not ready to because it is too easy for me to fall into
not feeling like I need God every single moment. I need to go live a
year (and maybe longer…probably longer… like the rest of my life?) in
places where I am so desperate and dependent on God to come through
because alone I’m useless. That should be true regardless of where you
live, but again, in the States we have to consciously live this way
every moment. On the race? Well, just to paint a picture. A month ago, one team in Tanzania got their contact’s home broken into, held up at gunpoint,
stripped of their possessions and passports…They’re useless without
God. They needed Him in a very real way in that moment and in every
moment of their healing process from the experience. God comes through
for us when we ask according to His will.
It was incredible to be in Haiti where I couldn’t understand the language at all, and pray for
barriers to be broken, and suddenly I find myself standing on shoddy,
thin metal rods connected by cracking cement fifteen feet above the
ground, taking directions in Creole on how to build a roof.
Construction done across linguistic barriers–impossible without God.
With His presence, it didn’t even phase me until after the fact how
natural that afternoon was. I’m about to spend 11 months where God is
going to be the primary–potentially sole–form of communication, but
luckily for me, He’s universal!
So anyway. Life begins at
the end of your comfort zone. Luckily, we are living in the creation of
our Creator. This whole place is his comfort zone. So I can step
outside of my box and know that I have the world’s best tour guide and
expert leading me, warning me, carrying me, and sharing each moment
with me. How cool is that? (Kind of makes you want to step outside of
your comfort zone, yeah?… So go do it! Whatever it looks like!)
