I was
talking with a friend tonight and I was sharing with her how I am so unsettled
and just plain old bored with Northwestern Wisconsin. I told her I am ready and wanting to go do
great things for God but am just fed up with the same old routine each day here.
She then said, “Try and make each day
here an adventure with God.’’ That comment got me thinking…and hence this blog
post.
Life with
God is an adventure wherever we go. I
tend to think (and I think a lot of people do to) that in order to minister to
someone or to go on a missions trip or to even live an awesome life for God that
we need to go to Africa, India, Bangkok, The Red-light District in Amsterdam,
or somewhere else outside of this country. Well that is a lie! Yes it may be true that a lot of these places
are Jesus deprived and we here in America can have all of Him we want, but that
doesn’t mean we need to go to these places to necessarily have an adventure and
change lives for Him.
I love
adventure and I would love to travel the world but God has me in little old
Frederic Wisconsin. (whoopdeedo) However,
one of things He is doing here in this little farm town in Wisconsin is giving
me about four days a week where I have nothing going on. Not many people in our world today have this
much free time in their life. I
do!!! God has given me plenty of ‘’freedom’’
to do what I want. This time is a grand
time to be spending with Him and growing in His word. But I have been too ‘’busy’’ wanting to go
elsewhere and do things for God overseas…where what God really wants from me is
just myself. I have been given an opportunity
most people don’t get to give God everything and to really seek Him in these days
I am home.
If you read
in the New Testament, the disciples spent three years in the presence of
Jesus. In this time they were growing
deeper in their faith in God. After the
three years of preparation with the King of kings the disciples began their
‘’adventures’’. Each man had a ministry
of his own and did wonderful, fantastic, awing things for God…and eventually
almost all of them were martyred. Wow!!!
But each one of these twelve men spent three years in preparation with their
Lord.
I think one
of the things God is trying to teach me here in these seemingly boring days in
Wisconsin is that every day with Him is an adventure all of its own and that
anytime I spend with Him, whether in my living room or on the mountain tops in
the Appalachian mountains, is a day of growth, preparation/teaching, and all
around awesomeness with the King of the universe… and that my friends is never
boring. God’s presence is anything but
boring. His presence is more than we can
ever imagine or dream about. It brings
us to our knees. It makes us want to cry, laugh, dance, praise, shout, sing,
worship our Creator, and scream for joy.
So, if you
are like me and just feel fed up with the same old daily schedule and routine I
would challenge you, as my wonderful sister in Christ did with me, to view
everyday you get to spend with God as an adventure all of its own. Even if you
are in your living room with just your Bible, God will fulfill all your expectations
for adventure. Cherish the time you get
to spend with Him, because our daily lives and schedules have a tendency to get
in the way of spending time with the most important individual in our life.
In James
chapter one at the end of verse four it states, ‘’…lacking in nothing.” Nothing means…nothing. So God promises that we will not be left in
want for anything. For me, that includes
adventure and travel.
So, pursue God and view every day as a grand
adventure with the King of the universe and I promise you that you will never
want for anything.
