They inspire me when they come to visit not only because I would love to be involved in missions at some point in my life, but because they inspire me to reach out and mission to the people around me, here in my home. I don't have to go to Taiwan or Africa to be a missionary, because reaching out to the person I sit next to and eat lunch with every day is just as big!
While listening to them speak at our Youth Group, we were given a great display of how they combine culture from so many different places and present God in an understandable way. Teni practices a Maori Warrior Dance, he bends metal bars, tears phone books, and uses these incredible feats of strength to show us and the people of Taiwan the Lord's love for us.
I WANNA DO THAT! And I realized that I can! I look around me today and I see so many people who are lost, alone, afraid, struggling, and unhappy, because they have a bunch of stuff clogging up the waterway to God. I am one of those people, but I realized, that if I do mission to the people around me, then I have made a difference. A difference that impacts not only that person, but it has brought me closer to God and taken me out of my comfort zone.
I like comfort, I like a plan that gives me some reassurance, and I don't like doing things that take me out of my comfort zone. I, however, have realized that sooner or later, God is gonna get me out of the comfort zone so I can do what is truly right for my life.
I recently started a group on the crafting website called Ravelry. A group for Christians to talk with one another, share their crafts, and to pray for one another. I was horribly nervous about doing it, afraid no one would join, but we have a ton of members now! I realized that I felt my efforts would be useless, but I prayed and said, "God, let your will happen" and did it anyway because I felt that it was what Jesus wanted me to do and that it was what Jesus would have done.
One person makes all the difference, I know it doesn't seem that way. But if you are kind, loving, or share your faith in friendship with someone, then they may do that to someone too, and then the cycle may just continue until there is a huge crowd of those who have been awoken by Jesus!
I am considering starting a little bible study within my youth group, to further step out of my comfort zone and to spread Jesus as far as I can and to strengthen the faith of myself and my friends. I hope that everyone who reads this will ask God what they can do to do the same, God bless you and thanks for reading!
enjoy my latest project, on my brand-spankin'-new spinning wheel! hand spun yarn is so purtty!
