It's Thursday morning and I just got done preparing for the morning show. My wife and I leave today for Juarez, Mexico. We have been there many times but this will be the first time we lead a team down. As I sit here and think about just how crazy that is, I get excited. I mean just look at me. I am a 29 year old kid from Montana who doesn't know spanish or much about building and I am leading a team down to Juarez Mexico to help build a church. That blows me away. I don't understand. There is nothing special about me but when I say those words my Awesome God tells me, "Oh no you are not just special, I created you. I created you with a purpose. A purpose to follow out My will. A purpose to love Me. A purpose to serve me and to serve others. I created you because I want to love you and take care of you all the days of your life." When I talk to people about my trips down to Juarez it brakes my heart to hear them say "Don't go!" If I didn't go it would be sin. To sit back and live that comfortable American life would be sin. Last time I checked my God created the universe and everything in it and He has the power to protect me if that is what He wants to do. If I am to die serving Him then Praise Him! I am ready Lord! What ever He wants is fine with me. I am sorry and this might offend some of you but I am done living that comfortable life. I think we have been doing it wrong. I remember always wanting that comfortable life growing up. I always wanted to have enough money so that I didn't have to worry. As Americans we don't face the hard times like most of the world. I get that we have hard times but not like the rest of the world. You see if I get to comfortable I forget about my God. I don't need my God when everything is great. My relationship seems to die when I don't need him. I am sick of playing it safe. I mean if you are truely going to live for God what does that mean to you? Ask yourself that question? Would you really give up everything for God if it came down to that? Because last time I checked that is what my bible told me I had to do.
MARK 8:34 And He summoned the multitude with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.
Col 3:3-7 (Phi) For, as far as this world is concerned, you are already dead, and your true life is a hidden one in God, through Christ. One day, Christ who is your life, will show himself openly, and you will all share in that magnificent revelation. Consider yourselves dead to worldly contacts: have nothing to do with sexual immorality, dirty mindedness, uncontrolled passion, evil desire, and the lusts for other people's goods, which amounts to idolatry. It is because of these very things that the holy anger of God falls upon those who refuse to obey him. And never forget that you had your part in those dreadful things when you lived that old life.
When I get to the end of my life I want to look back at the race I started with a life that left a mark for my King. I want to live my life for an audience of one. When I die and stand before my King I want to see a smile on my Lords face. I want Him to be proud of me. Man I have wasted to much time in my short life already. This life is short. The bible says that this life is but a vapor. Please don't miss it!! I pray that all of you that read this examine your life. Examine your heart. What is your heart beating for? Is it beating for the things that Gods heart is beating for?
