My prayer for the last well forever has been "God I want to see people the way you do." and my prayer for the last month or so everyday as I drive to school, is "Lord let me be your hands and feet today, in whatever way that may be." So as I pray these prayers the Lord has given me a glimpse through His eyes, and placed this longing on my heart to be his hands and feet to people in simple ways. So this brings me to the umph of my blog, I've been praying, asking, and looking. But when I would see the "needs" I wouldn't meet them. For example: Its snowing and I'm walking out of Wal-mart, there is this little old lady scooping of her car windows and instantly I think wow I should help her. As I turn to my friends to say wait lets help this lady, I get overwhelmed with the thoughts that, I don't have time, heck she is almost done what's one more window going to do to her, what are my friends going to think, and the list goes on and on."
That is just one story of several I've had in the past few weeks. I felt like God was telling me tonight to go to youth group instead of my missions class I normally would be at on a Sunday night, and my old youth pastor was speaking and the line that slapped me in the face was, "If someone were to read your life as a book, would it be an epic book/movie?" So many times in the past I've compromised the opportunities the Lord has given me to show His love. Why? Because its not comfortable, its not comfortable to go and ask to help someone you don't know, its not comfortable to give up some thing you've earned to let someone have more "comfort", IT'S NOT COMFORTABLE TO BE A FOLLOWER OF CHRIST! The Lord has called us to step out of our comforts to advance His kingdom. Our life is only so long, and living with out comforts for a glimpse of eternity WON'T KILL US!
Now will you join with me in this life that the Lord has called us to live, a life of giving up everything, to gain THE ONLY THING, Jesus Christ!
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