Wandering Disciple Danielle

Whether you know Him or not, God sees you in all you are, all you were, and all you ever will be. We waste so much of our lives hiding behind facades of who we want the world to think we are, and sometimes we even lie to ourselves, but if you have the slightest understanding of God's omnipotent omnipresence it is preposterous to be fake at all with Him: He knows what you think to yourself when you're alone in the shower, He knows about the dimple on your bum you don't like, He knows the things you say about the neighbour you hate, and on and on. But these disguises damage the intimacy God desires with us that is found only in complete, honest transparency. (For some reason, I took one and only selfie in the borrowed car from that day, and I managed to find it.)

Sometimes a soul is placed in our hands for but a moment in time. More often than not, we spit on that opportunity instead of revealing the heart of Christ.

I used to have a joke before tossing myself casually from terrifyingly-high cliffs around the world, "Dying is easy; it beats paying rent." We're called to a much greater death.

You're worth dying for. 

God looks at us and sees someone He loves. Real love will cost you everything you are. 

Love doesn't put a price on its own life, but on yours. 

"In matters of laying down our life for others, we can't afford to ask, 'What will this cost me?' But instead what will it cost them if I don't?"

I've recently moved back to Hawaii, and last night I was invited to a documentary viewing about modern day slavery in the fishing industry overseas. 

It was fiery afterward, opinionated, political, and as someone not personally involved in the industry, it was a little boring. 

I didn't give my opinion about it as we drove away, but my heart was burning and I was more than ready for battle and to respond to the issue, just not in the way my friend would have thought. 

As I sat there in the discussion after the documentary was played, my heart actually went out more to the ones hosting the event. They were so passionate... passionately wasting their lives fighting the wrong war and they didn't even know it. 

If I had said it out loud, I would have been surely beaten off the stage and flogged. It is a truth people don't want to hear. 

The truth is. THIS WORLD NEEDS MORE SLAVES. 

God in His infinite love will often bring us to a place where He knows we'll almost be miserable, but it's in those places of great and even painful challenge where He knows we'll grow faster in a short period of time of struggle than we would after many years in a place where we're comfortable.