Life with God is an adventure

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.