Safety

"cause there's nothing more important to you than your safety."

-car commercial.


"Man...I really hope not."- Mike Donehey.


That was all it took to get me started yesterday. A simple post on twitter yesterday started me thinking... I am so sick and tired of my safe, quiet, little christian life. I don't wanna be safe anymore. Our culture is so safe, isn't it? Airbags. Fire Alarms. House Alarms. Microwaves. I mean, come on what's a safer way to cook than a microwave? What happened to cooking over an open furnace. I mean, don't get me wrong, I AM NOT complaining. I'm thankful that we have all thees things to make life easier and keep us safe. But its so easy to get comfortable. It's so easy to slide into a mode of "I'll just life a quiet, safe little life and throw a 20 in the plate every week and read my bible and pray and that's it." But sometimes following Christ means walking into uncharted territory. Sometimes it means doing something dangerous." Like Mr. Tumnus said of Aslan the great lion in C.S. Lewis' The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe: "Safe? Who said anything about safe?... But he is good."


Been reading Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' for school. In the story, there this little hobbit, which is basically a midget dwarf, with fur on his feet (yea its weird, i know) but basically he has these dwarf friends who want to go on an adventure and he doesn't want to. He wants to stay in his comfortable little hobbit hole where he can eat 5 meals a day and have is tea time every day and sleep on his nice feather bed and not worry about dragons or goblins or trolls or gigantic spiders or enchanted water that makes you pass out or being captured or killed. He was perfectly content to sit around his little hobbit hole and never see if there was anything more to the world than what he knew.


And it seems so silly to us for this little hobbit to do that, but what we don't realize is that so often, that hobbit is us! We are content to sit in our little hobbit holes and not really take the risk of not being safe to see if there's anything more that what we know. We dont want to dig deeperin our ralationship with Christ because thats uncharted territory. We're afraid to see if there's something more that God has for us in life because, quite frankly, that's dangerous. I don't like writing rant blogs because that's dangerous for me as a writer. I make a lot of typos. I say things that don't always make 100% sense. But here's my point peeps: If we constantly life in the safety of our own little lives, we will never live up to the full potential that God has for us, because he never intended for following him to be safe. As my friend Sarah Fine (also a writer, but shes a whole lot better than I am) put it: "If Christians throughout the ages depended on convenience [or safety], I can guarantee you, heaven would be empty."


So it's up tp you now. Are you going to keep living in your own safe little world and pretend like theres not anything more out there, or are you going stick your head out of that hole and see the life that God has for you. It might not be safe. It might send you to the darkest, ugliest, poorest, most hazardous places in the world. You might get your heart broken. You might see the hurt on the faces of the homeless. You might see the scars left on this generation but the things of this world God might totally wreck you, and IT WILL NOT BE SAFE . But it will be altogether worth it, and it will be beautiful. It will be good.


"Safe? Who said anything about safe? He's a lion I tell you! But he is good."