I've been thinking a lot about this Francis Chan video. It reminds me of the sermon by Gary Haugen from IJM that I posted a link to awhile back. The challenge is similar in both: Will we be brave or will we be safe?
It's hard to be brave. When the going gets tough, the temptation to resort back to "safety" is very strong for me. It takes courage to press on, in spite of fear, and to release my grip on the things I try to control.
I'm being challenged to be brave in several areas of my life right now: leadership, relationships, a summer opportunity for our family (more on that in a future post), and even kindergarten for Jonah (more on that in another post, too). I'm sure I'll fail along the way...I always do. I'll get anxious about these areas and try to hold on to things too tightly. But I want to be brave. And I'm going to try!
What about you? Are there areas in your life that you are striving to have courage in?
P.S. Anyone want to read Just Courage with me? A good friend of mine just read it and highly recommended it. Might be a way for us to encourage one another.
2 comments:
i will totally read that with you!
i feel that same tension. i know deep down i want to be brave-that those are the stories that we were made for...i heard a sermon donald miller gave at mars hill a couple years ago that challenged basically teh same premise. it is just so easy to fall back in love with being safe-and why not? it's advertised to us EVERYWHERE as the good life. we "deserve" the best of everything- leisure, a fulfilling job that pays well, cute stuff, good schools for our kids, friends with values and lives that look like our own, etc etc.
I like that video from Francis Chan too. Speaks to the heart of what so any of us (I) struggle with, but not probably often enough.
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