What if we said yes to living a daily adventure with Jesus?
Jesus sees all we do, all we think, all we say, and he looks at us and loves us. He looks at you and loves you.
Yet we still choose to walk away from him in troubled times, we still turn to others and seek from them what God has already given us.
When I think of adventure, I think of a really big ocean, and really tall trees, both of things I am afraid of.
The ocean, because it is so vast, unknown, deep and dark. You can’t see what’s coming, and you can’t see where the end is.
Tall trees, because I’m afraid of heights, afraid of how bad the fall might hurt, how small I feel when I look up at the sky.
If these are the things I think of as adventure, does that mean I am afraid of adventure? I think at times, we are all afraid of adventure. Afraid of the wilderness, the beasts, and sometimes even afraid of the beauty that emerges from it. But we shouldn’t be afraid. We shouldn’t be afraid to embark on an adventure with Christ, as he leads us into the great unknown full of wonderful things.
“Do not be afraid, for I am with you always,” He says.
Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too well pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely because we sailed too close to the shore.
Disturb us, Lord, when
With the abundance of things we possess, we have lost our thirst for the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life, we have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth, we have allowed our vision of the new Heaven to dim.
With the abundance of things we possess, we have lost our thirst for the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life, we have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth, we have allowed our vision of the new Heaven to dim.
Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
To venture on wider seas where storms will show your mastery;
Where losing sight of land we shall find the stars.
To venture on wider seas where storms will show your mastery;
Where losing sight of land we shall find the stars.
We ask You to push back the horizons of our hopes;
And to push into the future in strength, courage, hope, and love.
-Sir Francis
"The Greatest Adventure" by Hosanna Poetry
The Great Adventure by Stephen Curtis Chapman
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