I am in Vienna-Austria, waiting for my dad and sister to arrive, so I have some time to myself. I was thinking about life these last few days and I have really been bored with life. To be honest, if I had the choice of being here or back at school I would choose the little, dinky town of Schladming (where school was).
Here I have been living the “good life,†I have a hotel room all to myself with a nice view and I have a public transit pass to get me anywhere in this beautiful city. Yet compared to experiencing God, it does not even come close. I say this because I feel that too few Christians truly experience Christ. They go to Church on Sunday, going through the motions, and then live life pretty normally throughout the week.
Decrepit Former Grist Disintegration Facility by Brandon.Peters
Life with Christ is an adventure and if all you are doing is going through the motions then you are living how Satan wants you to live. And I have been just as bad at doing this in the past and it was so BORING!!! Going to Bible school was probably one of the biggest leaps of faith I have taken in my life and I experienced God in such awesome ways, I can’t go back to normal life. We consider it radical when one of our Church members decides to sell everything and go off to do missions work but I feel like this should be normal.
Let’s take a look through the New Testament, I am honestly going to take a book out of Acts at random and I will find the “normal†for their Church. Chapter 12; Peter is arrested by Herod who intends to kill him as he also killed James, and “an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the prison.†If you read after that “Bob sold his house and moved to Africa†you would think, well that is boring, what happens to Peter?!?!
You see we get caught up in normal life and we think that is all there is. Life with Christ is an adventure and I really encourage you to live REAL Christian life. Don’t be worried about your circumstances, God’s word is full of promises to take care of us. So get out there and live as an adventure!
“the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power†Ephesians 1.18-19
