I found this quote as I was randomly flipping through my old Bible. Someone mentioned it at some camp event or something, and I scribbled it down on a scrap of an old post-it note, and shoved it between a couple of pages between the introduction and the marriage/death page.
The quote has made me think a lot - it IS all about the person you're becoming. The quote rings with passion and excitement to me. God's not too concerned about what pants I wear, but WHO I am. And he loves ms too much to leave me unchanged. Everything happens for a reason, and the things that happen NOW are probably God's way of preparing me for something else in the future.
My thought process ties in with a couple of books that I've been reading recently - one I skim through every 6 months when I'm home, and the author talks about Christianity being something involving passion and excitement. Life is meant to be enjoyed, not suffered through. He talks about his daughter going off and doing crazy things, and her family (grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles) kept telling her to settle down and go to university. The author says that his daughter kept changing countries and jobs and missions until she fell totally, head over heels, in love with Jesus.
I guess I identify with his daughter a little bit. I did when I left, and I still do. There's something that makes me want the excitement and passion of living with abandon. Why not? What's there to lose?
The "getting out of the boat" feeling is similar to walking off of a cliff, and unfortunately , it's quite addictive. If you know that God's going to catch you, why not? What is there to lose?
Life is a process, and I want to enjoy it. There's no place that I could possibly be that God won't catch me. I want to become and be, and sometimes that takes you far away, and sometimes it moves you closer to home. In my case, I'm rather terrified to move home, and THAT just might be the getting out of the boat this time.
It's not about who you are, but who you are changing to be.
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