What are you willing to risk?

Love so amazing, so divine! demands my life, my soul, my all.

What is the Task?
-Matt 28:19, Rev 5:9

People often ask, "Why bother going to all the nations, when there is so much need here?"  The answer..  Most everyone here has heard what I have to say..  Out there, there are 6900 unreached people groups who have never heard the gospel.  So the other question comes "Why are you trying to change these people, why are you interferring with their lives with bringing them this?"..  Second answer, Because its GOOD NEWS!  Jesus' love goes so far beyond what we can comprehend.  I love God, and I want everyone else in the world to see and feel how much God loves them!  We are not meant to be ethnocentric.  I am not trying to downplay the importance of the work needed here, but why do we have 8 christian leaders on one troubled teenaged kid who has heard the message a thousand times and under 20 missionaries per every 20 million unbelievers in places like India, Mongolia, Taiwan.  He sent his one and only Son! to die, on a cross!  The most humiliating, excruciatingly painful ways to die, for our sins, and for every single persons sins.  So lets soak up his love, so that we can spread it to the nations.

Am I different? ... I hope so.  I want people to look at me and know that I am different, for what I believe.  Not of this world, but in the world, making a difference for the poor, the impoverished, the starved, the unhealthy, and the weak.

So I ask myself this... am I willing to take the risk?  480 christians are martyred every 24 hours.  In places like India, Egypt, Israel, China, Taiwan, Malaysia and many more.  Am I truly willing to give up my life for Christ?  Am I willing to dedicate days, months, years, decades, trying to reach the unreached... I think its worth it, do you?

God works in many ways, and I am incredibly scared to say it, but I want God to use me to the fullest extent.. Missions exist, because Worship doesnt.  It is not everyones call to go forth, every missionary needs the body of christ backing him/her up, financially, emotionally, spiritually and physically.  All I am saying is dont miss out on what God has called you to do.. Listen to Him, practice his presence, put a penny in your shoe and whenever you feel it, reckognize Gods presence, and respond.  If we all would start to regularly listen to God, and practice His presence, and respond to His word... Wow,.. what crazy amazing things would happen.

So.. in all my ramblings, I ask for your continued prayers, and that God may keep revealing His love to me. As well also for my earthly father, whom I love, and whom the Father loves, and cares for deeply, and wants to see him turn to Christ as well.