A thought by Mark Batterson, Richard Foth, and
Susanna Foth Aughtmon (2015-04-28) from their book, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure ofa Lifetime (p. 46). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the
title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)
I know. We think that playing it safe is what we
want. But this weekend if we would have
played it safe and stayed in our home in Studio City because we knew there was
risk in getting in our car and heading up 5 hours to Yosemite we would have
risked missing an extra ordinary experience that we will remember the rest of
our lives. But we didn’t play it safe.
I mean, if we would have played it
safe this morning, no way would Margaret have headed off to make a difference
in the work that she does. There is
always a risk when you get on the freeways of LA but there is also a risk when you don't.
I like how Mark puts it, “One of our
three core convictions at National Community Church is that the church belongs
in the middle of the marketplace. As our pastor of mission, Dave Schmidgall,
likes to say, a church that stays within its four walls isn’t a church at all.
Paul didn’t stand outside the Aereopagus and boycott. He went toe-to-toe with
some of the greatest minds in the ancient world competing for the truth. In the
words of Michelangelo, we need to criticize by creating. That doesn’t mean
creating our own subculture. It means writing better books, producing better
films, and starting better businesses. Here’s what I know for sure: you can’t
be the hands and feet of Jesus if you’re sitting on the back of your lap. In
too many instances, we’ve turned being a Jesus follower into a noun. Following
Jesus is a verb. More specifically, an action verb.” And with every action or non action there is
a risk.
Think of all that you would have missed in
life if you would have played it safe.
Now if you have played it safe you don’t know what you’ve missed. And you are risking not really living life to
its fullest.
We are a family that has never played
it safe and we have and are living a life of adventure. We have followed Jesus all over the US. It has been tough sometimes but it has been
worth the risk. And we would have risked
so much if we would have played it safe. Thanks, God for not letting us play it
safe.
So how does this thought make a
difference in what you do today?
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