Prepping for Adventure

Four days from now, I will be going on a rafting and rock climbing adventure with 4 teenagers and two other sponsors. Call me crazy.

There are lots of details to check off the list between now and then. Borrowing camping and cooking gear, printing out tons of permission slips, and of course… making sure we have marshmallow and bug spray. I’ve got 4 Bible studies/devotionals/discussions to plan for our campers. I need to prepare to preach this Sunday and after we get back next Sunday. Oh yeah, and we have some great friends with two beautiful little girls coming to visit us before we leave too. It is definitely game time.

Proverbs 13:4 says “The slacker craves, yet has nothing, but the diligent is fully satisfied.” Now is the time to be diligent.

It may sound zany and crazy, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. Game time is where its at. This is where the rubber meets the road. If I don’t surrender it all to God and completely engage with the tasks at hand, none of it will happen. It has to be a God thing, because if its left up to me, it ainta gonna work.

Isn’t it funny how pressure works. Pressure can force us down one of two paths. As a human, pressure can mold us into the Git-R-Done, it all rests on my shoulders, I’d better buck up mentality that keeps us awake at night, sipping on coffee as we get progressively cranky with the people we love (not that I ever respond that way…). That’s path number 1. Personally, I like path number 2. As a believer, we have the opportunity to surrender to the person of Jesus and let him work and move through us. The things that need to get done will get done. We must continue to be diligent, but we recognize and acknowledge that it’s Jesus gittin’ R done.

I just hope I don’t spend too much time on path number 1 before I’m reminded that I need to be on path number 2.