that’s right I am leaving in seven hours to a little town called Vicente Guerrero about 3 hours south of Ensenada. I am going as a leader for a group of students and adults from Apple Valley Christian School traveling to a mission/orphanage called Foundation for His Ministries. ( http://www.ffhm.org/ ) I started going my sophomore year in high school in 2000 and have been 8ish times since then. The greatest part is the continued relationship that I am able to have with the kids and full time staff there, one of the girls even being a child that my parents sponsor. I am excited to see what God has been doing down there and am humbled and grateful for the opportunity to be able to be a small part of it.
Preparing for this trip had me self reflecting and a couple nights ago had a thought. If someone were to ask me what I thought about God or Jesus or following Christ what would my answer be? I’m sure I could come up with some good answers. Probably something deep, thought provoking and dripping with great theological terms and other big words to make myself very spiritual and very in tune. Or even something small, short and profound. I’m sure all Christians and non-Christian would have great answers, even just simple worlds that would somewhat begin to describe the magnitude of how we feel about God and what He has done for us.
However, I then realized that really our lives are an actual depiction of what we think of God. I don’t have to say a word, my witness, my argument, my frail attempt to describe God; to tell of who and what he is to me is being said every second of every day.
What does it mean to be a follower of Christ? That we live our lives in response to what He has done for us.
No wonder people look at the “Church”, at me, and laugh at us sinking, gasping for air in our own hypocrisy. Peoples whose body and mind are as disjointed as mine, outside of religion, are locked up as mentally insane. I understand completely why we, why I, live so disjointed, because it is so much easier. And we believe that what is easy and quick is more fun right? (or at least we have time for more important things). What would it look like if I, if we the Church, bridged and closed the disconnect? All I know is that the world would be a different place.
So here I am left with a decision to make, do I continue in my mind/body disconnect or do I make the changes that need to be made, and live as a reflection of what Christ has done for me. I pray that we all find the strength to do what is difficult and live, breath and sleep in the grace and mercy of a Father who desperately loves us.
Blessings for you all - see you in a week.
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