COMPLACENCY....

Everyday when I go to bed and when I wake up, I am being challenged. My two weeks so far here have been great, but I am waking up and going to bed troubled. Everything within me is being challenged. Every thought, every desire, every dream, every belief system, every relationship, every emotion, every everything.

For two weeks, I have been living in a unique state of being. I do not always know how to function within the state that I have been..It has been stressful, rewarding, challenging, but most importantly it has been a two week period in which I have realized how complacent we get in our day to day lifestyle, and in our day to day walk with Christ, and within the realm of social justice/development. We in many ways have become complacent, to what is going on around us because we live in a bubble, consisting of our world and that is it.

If we become complacent in our life, than what good are we to society? we are a bunch of robots that do not accomplish anything, but the mundane boring lifestyle of getting up going to work or school, coming home, eatting dinner and going to bed. If we remain in our bubble we do nothing for this world, and we do nothing as Christians.

I just as everyone else gets caught up within the daily lifestyle and daily routine, but being here the past two weeks and realizing how comfortable I have become and how complacent I have become in my life, and even though I am aware of what goes on, and others might not think I am in a bubble I feel as though I am. I feel as though I have become complacent in my life. What can a complacent Christian accomplish. I am supposed to burn for Him. I am supposed to be so in love with Christ, that I burn, that his love radiates through me, that becaue I am walking in a relationship with him that is so deep that I can not be complacent in the world I live in. We talk and we talk, but at what point do we decide to go all in. At what point do we decide to stop talking, at what point do we say I am going to put this to action? Do we wait till we have the porper degree, or do we start now? Do we just debate the issue or do we begin to wlak like Christ walked?

At what point do we TRULY decide to pick up the CROSS and carry it. When do we decide to OPEN our EYES, and see like Christ sees. When do I decide to move and stop being a complacent person. When do I decide to live an uncomfortable lifestyle. Stop waiting for tomorrow. Each day that we sit by, and we decide to wait, is a day wasted. Is a day we have lost.

I get tired of hearing people say things that sound completely uneducated, especially within the church. I am not saying that every person is supposed to leave the country, and is supposed to go to the far off area's to help a person, but what I am saying is look in your backyard. Stop living the complacent lifestyle. When you see someone who is homeless, whether you think they are or not, offer them assistance when they are asking for money. We need to stop assuming we know their story, we need to stop assuming they will spend the money on alcohol. How do you expect to help someone if you can not meet their need at that moment?

I am beyond myself. I am being turned upside down, and inside out, and I feel like I might explode, but Im glad. I do not want to be okay with injustice. I do not want to waste another day. I want to dive deeper. I want to go deeper. I want to live each day like it is my last. I want to live each day knowing tha I completed the Lord's will for that day. I want to know that at the end of the day I behaved how Christ would have, I want to know that ten years from now, I have done as Christ has done. I want to live a life, that is not complacent. I want to be an example of living a life outside of myself, and be the hands and feet of Christ.