risk

The greatest things in life involve risk, toil, and suffering. Donald Miller writes in his book (quoting someone else) A Million Miles in a Thousand Years:

"I read a book a couple of years ago by Steven Pressfield called The War of Art. The book is about writing, about the process of getting words onto an empty page. Pressfield said a writer has to sit down every day and write, regardless of how he feels. He said you can sit around and wait for inspiration to come, but you'll never finish your book that way. 'The muse honors the working stiff,' Pressfield says. He also says that every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when trying to create something good. He even says resistance, a kind of feeling that comes against you when you point toward a distant horizon, is a sure sign that you are supposed to do the thing in the first place. The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be, Pressfield believes."

And I don't think this refers only to writing.

At Urbana, Patrick Fung, director of OMF, spoke about the people who are changing the world. Google, Apple, and Microsoft were not mentioned. The nameless are the ones who are going to change the 21st century.

We are to live to be forgotten. If we are to live for God, then we are to take risks. Risks show our faith - we believe God will provide, because God is Jehovah-Jireh.

I want to follow the still, small voice of the Spirit, to pray bold intercessory prayers, to discover more of Jesus - not theology, not Christianity, but Jesus.