In Wild at Heart, John Eldredge suggests that “The history of a man’s relationship with God is the story of how God calls him out, takes him on a journey and gives him his true name.”
It is out in the frontier, away from our places of comfort and convenience that we get to discover who we were created to be, and where we get to know and experience God’s true heart for us as his sons.
In order to come fully alive, we must then accept his invitation into the unknown, move away from all the ways in which we try to control life and choose to risk. This implies surrendering all alternatives and taking the path where God is not only our Plan A, but our only plan. It implies “burning the ships” and going all in with him.
This is the life that we were created for. It is the life we see modeled in Scripture— a life of faith, a life of adventure and risk. Abram chose to leave it all behind, accept God’s invitation and trust that he would fulfill his promises. So did the disciples in response to Jesus’ simple but radical invitation to follow him. Their lives were radically transformed and through their acts of faith, God partnered with them to change the world.
How is God inviting you to risk in this season?
Would you be willing to take a pause from all the distractions of this world and the busyness that constantly tries to rule over us, take a breath and let God speak to you today? Would you dare to ask him:
“Father, how are you inviting me to risk in this season?”
Think for a moment about your relationships. Is there a conversation that God is leading you to have and that you’d rather try to avoid?
How about your marriage? How can you risk in love and go after all that God wants to make available to you both— the intimacy, light-heartedness and joy that you truly desire?
Is this the moment, perhaps, where you must reach out to one person you trust and share openly what you’ve been struggling with and ask for help?
Consider your emotional energy, your time, your finances. How is God inviting you to risk in love by investing in the hearts and lives of the people you love the most? In the people God has placed under your care?
Jesus, I open my heart to hear your voice. Where are you leading me? Where are you asking me to risk? I pray that as I hear you, you may reveal what’s in my heart that prevents me from fully trusting you. Heal my heart, Jesus, heal the places in my heart where I still doubt that you will come through for me. Jesus, I pray that you may give me an undivided heart and that you may strengthen my will to trust you and follow you wholeheartedly. You have my yes.
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