In Rio Grande, and on the race in general “comfortable” is not word I think I would use to describe mostly any of it.
With our schedule here waking up at 5:30am every morning, doing manual labor with the temp in the 90s(not to mention the sun and humidity making it almost 10 degrees hotter), evangelizing while sweating perfusivley, the bugs just the bugs, and preaching to a crowd that doesn’t speak the same language as you is not very comfortable. That is just a couple physical aspects of uncomfortable challenges here. Mental and spiritual challenges begin with the Lord giving me a word, a vision, or just tells me to pray for someone and it doesn’t feel comfortable to do it. The Lord has often since Ive been here pointed me back to things from my past he wants to heal me from or have me fully walk through with Him, thats not comfortable. Even just conversations with people and the Lord telling me to tell my testimony, thats not always comfortable either!
I think of the disciples, or really anyone in the Bible that the Lord told them to do something or told them to go somewhere. Some of the time it was blindly and they just had to trust the Lords plan and what he had set before them. That is where some of the most amazing stories come from, when people fully put there trust(and obidence) in the Lord and are willing to step into the uncomfortable.
A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at a church named “Rancho El Pozo” in Playa Blanco. In the sermon I was covering the topic ”being obedient to the Lord”, saying yes to him, in that I talked about how its not going to be comfortable. We will be challenged more than we think we might be able to handle. We can do all things through Christ who strengthened us. The Lord never called us to live comfortably he just called us to live according to his will.
