...paths...

in life we have to make a lot of decisions; do we decide to walk the easy well trodden path or go of the beaten track, try something new and take risks?

so many times when faced with a choice, we automatically pick a well trodden path, the boring, run of the mill life. we are afraid to take the risk, to step into the unknown to fully trust the God who gave us choice in the first place.

God didn't create us to lead boring life's, to never take risks and to be become so tied to a path that we never veer off. what i love so much about God, is that we CAN take risks, we can step out. he created me to be dangerous, to find out things about him that no-one else knows, to live a life that is completely missional, authentic and passionate.

it doesn't matter where in the world i am, who im with or where i am going as long as im following God.

we have become so concreted into life as we know it, when it comes to meeting God, we structure him in, and don't allow him to move how he wants to. he's screaming at us, to get of our bums, and have some authentic time with him, and all we can give him is church, and then a lifestyle that doesn't reflect what we say. we don't allow him to pick up our lives and move us to another place, physically or spiritually, we become afraid of growth and of new things. we encase our selves in a bubble and pretend that we have a real relationship with Him, yet he's there hitting the bubble, trying to get in, to have a small part of out lives. he longs for the barrier to be taken down, for us to be comfortable spending time with him and looking at our lives, not shamefully hiding them away. some of us, fool ourselves into thinking the bubbles protect us from hurt, the past, problems, yet instead it intensifies them and creates a separation between us and God. God isn't going to to dish anything out we can't take, or make is deal with a issue we aren't ready to deal with. he's gentle, kind, loving and patient. something i have been learning as i tear away the bubble from own life, dealing with of once and for all the crap in the past that i have put there and that has been created for me.

if we want to truly make a difference in this world, we need to wear our hearts on our sleeves, not hiding it away. we need to be vulnerable and real with the people we met, and with God. not allowing this world to taint us, to makes us unfocused and take us of track. we need to get real. we need to fight. to persevere. we are in war. lets not forget that.