Have you Ever...

Have you ever wanted to do something... different. Something that most people would think you're crazy for doing? I just read an article about suicides in Bridgend in Wales. Suddenly I find myself thinking about how I could possibly get over there by tomorrow morning and start praying over the whole area. There is something inside me that just screams about injustice that people between the ages of 15 and 23 over there are committing suicide because of a twisted sense of reality that it's cool to do it. They don't remember that they'll be dead before they can enjoy their fame and ultra cool new status. That is a warped reality, and unacceptable and everything in my right now just wants to go and fight for them, whatever the cost may be. Unfortunately that kind of trip costs a lot more than I can afford, and it's not at all a rational thing to do. So instead I pull up Google Earth and pray over the map, but I do wish I could be there with the people, on the land, touching the buildings and smelling the air, feeling everything around me. Fighting, be a warrior, just as I was made to be.

The truth is I am doing something different, and even I think I'm a tad off my rocker for doing it. I'm going to Serbia for a year! I get to live in Novi Sad in the middle of nation that is desperate for the Love of Christ, and for which Christ is desperate to Love. It makes my heart smile just to think about the next year of my life, far from home and everything that I know and love, just to be a part of everything my Lord knows and loves. It's very different.

Then I'll come back and attempt by the strength of Christ to get back into school and transfer everything I've learned over that year into a campus that needs that message just a much. OR perhaps I'll stay in my beautiful Novi Sad for another year, again different and veritably insane. Or Stint in another country... like England/Wales, Bosnia, South East Asia, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Thailand, Spain, or some other place I haven't been yet, which is a lot of places. Campus Crusade is set up in 190 countries doing missionary work on some level, that's 98% of the world... so maybe I'll go somewhere that's in that 2%, the unknown territory.

Have you ever wanted to fight for something that's bigger than you? Have you ever wanted to fight for people to know the Love of their God, whether they choose to acknowledge there is a God who can Love or not? Have you ever thought about leaving the country on a whim for the sole purpose of praying for as long as it takes to see a break through happen in a place? Or even just leave your own home? Your city, or your state? There is so much work to be done, and so little time. Especially for young people who don't realize that they are more precious living than dead. We have so very little and precious time. The psalmists often described us as flowers or grass or dust on the wind or whatever have you. They are so right. Our time short, but we live like we have all the time in the world. The problem is that there are plenty of people who are dieing out there, and they don't have time.

What have you wanted to do? What has stopped you? Why did you let it? What do you want to do now? Has the Lord enabled you to do it? Then why not start?