Life is an amazing thing, but at the same time it is very frustrating. We have the answers to all the deepest and toughest questions in life, and we have found what the one thing everyone in all of history has spent their lives searching for. Our search for meaning, purpose, satisfaction and love drive just about everything we do.
It is a shame that we, as Christians , cannot see the emptiness and desperation of the world (and often in ourselves) or if we see it we ignore it because it is uncomfortable and we couldn't do much about it anyways. We give our brothers and sisters in Africa our sympathy but we leave it up to "rich" people to donate large sums of money to solve the worlds problems. We see our friends at school who continually chase after the empty things of this world and never find life, but we say "maybe they will grow out of it" or "its a lost cause".
Sometimes we make other excuses such as "I am too young" and we always look forward to the day that we start to live out our faith. The ironic thing is that when that day comes, we will say "I am too old for this"
Every time i start thinking about how I can show people the kingdom of God I realize that I am very good at hiding it inside a church building or in the walls of my dorm room and that I am a master of excuses. As Donald Miller puts is "We cant be letting the world tell us how to live when the world dosent know the first thing about living".
Mother Theresa said something that stripped me of my ability to make excuses. She said "In this life we may not do great things. We can only do small things with great love".
There are no longer any excuses.
If we claim to follow a man who conquered death so that we would have life, then we should know no limits to our love. If we claim to know a better way of life then we should believe that the world will notice when we live. If we have experienced the life that Jesus offered, we should know that it is worth fighting for.
My hope is that we can remain faithful with the small things so the Lord can use us in big ways.