There are two worlds out there: Known and the Unknown. The Known is our place of safety, our comfort zone, it's where we live our normal lives and stick to our normal routine. The Unknown is a place of dangers, adventure, uncertainty, fear, new things, trial and error, the excitement of being different, and the fear of being mocked. Living in the Known is obviously the most comfortable, but if we didn't venture out we wouldn't know what we were capable of. The Known keeps you wishing and dreaming, the Unknown opens up the door to make those wishes and dreams reality.
No one likes to be rejected. We all want to feel needed; to be missed when we're gone, but if we worry about what other people think of us, then we will never do anything. Fear is a powerful master, and if we let it, it can control everything we do or say. Honestly though, what is there to be afraid of? Who cares if they laugh, for we will have been the adventurous ones, the ones who dared to be different. Normal is overrated anyways. I mean, think about what would happen if we took risks, if we laughed in the face of our critics, and if we really were different.
For me, I tend to so quickly try and blend it. I put on a mask and hope that others will accept me, but I've come to see that's not the way my Savior intended for me to live. He gently reminds me that as a Christian, I will be different, and I won't live like the world around me, not because I'm perfect or anything, but because I have been made new, and now I desire to live a life that's pleasing to my Lord and Savior. All too often I forget this, and I hastily attempt to put that mask on my face once again. Sometimes I'll stand against the wall, unwilling to give up the security the wall behind gives me, yet the Lord shows me what could be, and I long to change and be different. I want to give up my mask and the facade I hide behind. No longer do I wish to lie and to bury my thoughts and feelings. I want to be open and honest and real.
The Unknown can be a scary place, but it's where I would rather be.
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